Curiosity Quotes - Page 28

• I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  People, Car, Curious

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Adversity, Reflection, Knowing

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• If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, Needs

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• Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

  Max Anders

  Godly, Challenges, Enormous

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• Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions. Beware of anyone who insists on reframing your sincere curiosity as a character defect. Beware of anyone who questions your motives while ignoring your facts. When someone calls you bad names merely for asking questions, it suggests they know the answer but are terrified to admit it.

  Jim Goad

  Character, Asking Questions, Names

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• Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.

  Michael Kay

  Listening, Principles, Answers

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• Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote an entire working life to one particular discipline.

  Robert W. Bly

  Moving, Discipline, Intellectual

  Robert W. Bly (2003). “Careers for Writers & Others Who Have a Way with Words”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

  Liza Minnelli

  Parent, Looks, My Family

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

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Air, Long

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Doe, Appease

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• Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements - it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories - it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this.

  Ang Lee

  Character, Years, Two

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Someone once said that the two most important things in developing taste were sensitivity and intelligence. I don't think this is so; I'd rather call them curiosity and courage. Curiosity to look for the new and the hidden; courage to develop your own tastes regardless of what others might say or think.

  R. Murray Schafer

  Thinking, Two, Important

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• The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
  The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Design, World

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• I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

  Charley Pride

  Artist, Nashville, Realizing

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• I'm prepared to concede that stupidity does not help survival. One must after all understand not to poke a tiger with a stick. But intelligence leads to curiosity, and curiosity has never been a quality that helps one pour his or her genes into the pool. The truth must lie somewhere between. Whatever the reason, it is clearly mediocrity, at best, that lives and breeds.

  Jack McDevitt

  Lying, Stupidity, Survival

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• The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Cabinets, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.

  Laurence Olivier

  Sex, Hunting, Unattractive

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• What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

  Eve Arnold

  Needs, Digestion, Photographer

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• I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.

  Benny Carter

  Way, World, Wells

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• While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.

  Dawoud Bey

  Thinking, People, Strategy

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• All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape, a face or anything else which interests me. In any case, the nude is a form of landscape. There are no reasons for my photographs, nor any rules; all depends on the mood of the moment, on the mood of the model.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Photography, Body, Landscape

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• The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Zero, Past

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• Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Belief, Signing, Suppression

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• The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it springs from the collective consciousness of our culture - but instead it teaches us to value abstract rewards at the expense of our autonomy, curiosity, interior lives, and time.

  Derrick Jensen

  Spring, Giving, Long

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.104, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The religion that has transformed Western civilization for two millennia is a blank slate for liberals. Their closest reference point is conservative Christians, meaning people you're not supposed to hire. And these are the people who carp about George Bush's alleged lack of intellectual curiosity.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Civilization, Two

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