Curiosity Quotes - Page 26

• Curiosity urges you on-driving force.

  John Dos Passos

  Driving, Force, Urges

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• I'm really excited about the places I've gone and the places I'm going, internally and externally speaking, and working to bring different spectrums of curiosity to life.

  Victoria Mahoney

  Different, Gone, Excited

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I discovered PopTech and other kind of intellectualish, online portals for curiosity. Very quickly, I just got so much more out of those than from so-called "Ivy League" education that I knew it was on me to keep myself stimulated, and to keep learning, more than anything. And, because I paid my way through college, I was working at Penn, two to four jobs at a time to pay for school.

  Maria Popova

  Jobs, School, College

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

  Robert Crumb

  Player, Dying, Musician

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Ideas, Looks, World

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Jobs, Moving, Creativity

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• We are not really spying, we're just satisfying our curiosity.

  Paul Christopher

  Satisfying

  Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.59, Penguin

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• I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.

  Dale J. Stephens

  Creativity, College, Two

  "College is a waste of time" by Dale Stephens, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

  Craig Mello

  Discovery, Passionate, Scientist

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• Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Pride, Lions

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• A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Years, Bored

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• As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Long, Greater

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• those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Greatness, Two, People

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

  Michael Ray

  Creativity, Judgment

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• There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Careers, Special

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Alive, Known

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• The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Creativity, Ideas

  Canada.com Interview, April 23, 2007.

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• First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Girl, Self, Benefits

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• Learning is by nature, curiosity.

  Philo

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• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  William Faulkner

  Sacrifice, Mistress, Slave

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.969, Modern Library

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• It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

  James Cameron

  Imagination, Five Senses, Levels

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• What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Names, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

  Rebecca Mead

  Journalist, Qualifications

  "Ask the Author Live: Rebecca Mead". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Profound question is how do you measure the non-skills component of what goes on in schools: values, curiosity, critical thinking, and so on. That's very tough. Maybe everything worthwhile can't be measured.

  Nicholas Lemann

  School, Thinking, Skills

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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