I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
I try to be led by my curiosity.
Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
Art fairs are a lot like professional proms – you make contacts, have a lot to look at, and in some cases, you make friends forever. I think that for artists, they can be a bit controversial: they stimulate curiosity, but at the same time, you’re always trying to not have your work hung on a wall.
I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
Curiosity – the rover and the concept – is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of – I don’t want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.
Mary Roach’s curiosity is notoriously infectious.
Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.
We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
It’s that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don’t subscribe to it.
Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?
As long as you’re interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
I am generally fascinated by what are the big, challenging questions – that’s behind my curiosity.
People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ Well, on the first place, I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it’s too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.
Here’s a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That’s no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
I think that everybody should go out there and test their curiosity, find a haunted place.
I don’t separate my books into historical novels and the rest. To me, they’re all made-up worlds, and both kinds are borne out of curiosity, some investigation into the past.
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Donald Trump is a disaster. He is a bully who doesn’t have the curiosity to understand the issues; he contradicts himself repeatedly; his views of the world are an unmitigated disaster for America and for the American people, and I believe that all of this will become clearer with time.
My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.
I don’t remember being a child, and that’s why I think I’m so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.
I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It’s a passion. And I can’t understand people who don’t want to travel.
A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself – early enough to make use of it – was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.
Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you’re free to create NewCo.
My Grinnell education didn’t prepare me directly for the work that I’m doing, but it did give me the tools that I needed to focus my curiosity.
Basically, life isn’t just about eating and partying – we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.
I lived in Calgary, and a lot of old WWE, WWF and WCW guys went through Calgary – whether to train or to work on the independent scene. When I lived there, I became immersed in all of this wrestling talk and it sparked my curiosity.
So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn’t want it showing up on the bill.
It may be that our cosmic curiosity… is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.
I’m not coming from film school. I learned cinema in the cinema watching films, so you always have a curiosity. I say, ‘Well, what if I make a film in this genre? What if I make this film like this?’
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we’re surrounded by things we can’t see.
As a print journalist, you can be frustrated by people who don’t call you back, parts of the story you can’t get. TV gets you access to everyone because people call you back. It also allows you to satisfy your curiosity. I am a very curious person.
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.
As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible – literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.
That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.
If you sit down among hundreds of thousands of albatrosses in a field, pretty soon you’ll be completely surrounded by them, as they come walking up toward us and nibble on our shoelaces and just look right at us out of curiosity.
I think of myself as quite a shy person. But when I’m curious about something, I’ll go quite far to satisfy my curiosity.
All children are born with stars in their eyes, and they are curious. It is important for teachers to be careful not to kill this curiosity. A lot can go wrong. Children can be teased, even by teachers.
Replace judgment with curiosity.
I’m strong and opinionated. Those qualities brought me a lot of problems since I was a little girl in school, saying ‘I don’t agree’ and fighting with the children. It’s part of my curiosity for life.
I want people to believe in themselves. I want intellectual curiosity. I want someone who realizes that they don’t know it all and that they’re dying to learn.
