Curiosity Quotes - Page 19

• Foster a curiosity for the uncommon, regardless of how unpopular it is. The uncommon is where opportunity likes to hide.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Opportunity, Likes, Uncommon

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• We [in the MBA] get to create a situation where we're really choosing the students to join our environment based upon what we think they can teach the rest of us. We're always trying to attract people who are going to bring excitement and intellectual curiosity into our classrooms in our environment.

  Robert J. Dolan

  Thinking, Mba, Always Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  Karyn Kusama

  Fire, Creative, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The over curious are not over wise.

  Philip Massinger

  Wise, Curious

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• Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  May, Littles, Empty

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• There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Unbearable, Obsession, Hunger

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.53, Essential Library

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• I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Doors, Obstinacy, Forbidden

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• Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Mean, Fighting, Expression

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Blessed, Animal, Self

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.196, A&C Black

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• if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.

  Rumer Godden

  Thinking, Different, Answers

  Rumer Godden (1963). “The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows”

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• Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Men, Curious, Instruction

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• the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Thinking, Discovery, Wish

  Joyce Grenfell, Reggie Grenfell, Richard Garnett (1980). “Joyce”

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• Curiosity is the hunger of the human mind.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mind, Hunger, Humans

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• Without a strong cup to carry the emotion, it is only a curiosity. Great art can come to us only in strong cups. Without emotion, there is nothing to carry.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Art, Strong, Cups

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• Curiosity is the other side of caution.

  Temple Grandin

  Sides, Caution

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2009). “Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a little-known linguistic curiosity that the name Jehovah or Jaweh is the same name as Eve; Havva, the counterpart name in Farsi, the language spoken by the Persians, means either Jaweh or Eve.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  God, Mean, Names

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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• Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Son, Player, Greatness

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• But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.

  Lawrence Joseph Henderson

  Moving, Science, Play

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• Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.

  Guity Novin

  Creativity, Artist, Space

  Negin magazine, No 77, p. 57, 1971.

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• Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Intellectual, Desire, Mastery

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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• One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you.

  Meryl Streep

  Mean, Keys, Shoes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Race, Imagination, Understanding

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• We all have to acknowledge the life and the path we were born into. And the things that define us, they're often somewhat narrow: our class, our race, our gender, where we grew up, what geography we were exposed to. The curiosity and wonderment of, "What it's like on your path?" - that's when you go into high alert.

  Debra Granik

  Race, Class, Path

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Sometimes I wonder about the people who can do very reflective work about their own ethnic group or their own families, or comedies that take place in the life that they've grown up in. That's a very special fortitude. Other brains have a curiosity for what they don't know - the life they're not leading.

  Debra Granik

  People, Brain, Special

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Other Cultures, People, Would Be

  "The Omnivore’s Agenda: An Interview with Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. November, 2010.

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