I read the papers online, and something usually piques my curiosity – that will then be the baseline of my research for the day.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn’t kill people.
And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
But one of the most important and lasting things my father taught me was a love of the outdoors and how to respect it. I have tried to pass that curiosity and respect on to my kids and to others.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Curiosity is life. Assumption is death.
Curiosity is what keeps me open to a sense of hope. It staves off negativity.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.
I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.
Mostly I’m writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.
I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence – you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop – the idea that we’re going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
I’d worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.
The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
I call horses ‘divine mirrors’ – they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in our town there be no philosophers who practice this art, so pray, take not amiss my poor pen and the liberty I here take in setting down my random notions.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
What really matters is your movies and how good a person you are. Otherwise, tabloids and news channels writing about you only builds your curiosity and stardom and propels you to reach wider places.
When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and ‘human.’
