Curiosity Quotes - Page 33

• Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

  John Cage

  Judgment, Awareness, Destructive

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it.

  William Herbert Sheldon

  Learning, People, World

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• The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Giving, Tree

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Writing, Looks

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• Creative people have an abiding curiosity and an insatiable desire to learn how and why things work. They take nothing for granted. They are interested in things around them and tend to stow away bits and pieces of information in their minds for the future use. And, they have a great ability to mobilize their thinking and experiences for use in solving a new problem.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Thinking, People, Creative

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• My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.

  Akio Morita

  Education, Jobs, People

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Paris, Glasses

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Education, Important

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.29, Knopf

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• The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

  Isaac Asimov

  Understanding, Mind, Weapons

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• Those who see what's obvious aren't necessarily brighter than others. They're just more likely to observe that the emperor is naked. Like children, they see what's actually there. Their perceptions are less clouded by belief systems, taboos, habits of thought. One responsibility of management--an important one--is to call attention to the invisible obvious, pointing it out as a child does (sometimes to the embarrassment of adults). Doing so also requires supporting employees who take that risk, too, and other risks as well.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Responsibility, Risk

  Richard Farson, Ralph Keyes (2003). “Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Heaven is satisfied curiosity.

  Paola Antonelli

  God, Heaven, Soul

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• Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become apparent and fall away. When you no longer believe that eating will save your life when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed or lonely, you will stop. When you believe in yourself more than you believe in food, you will stop using food as if it were your only chance at not falling apart. When the shape of your body no longer matches the shape of your beliefs, the weight disappears.

  Geneen Roth

  Lonely, Lying, Fall

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from entitlement to humility.

  Angeles Arrien

  Trust, Christian, Letting Go

  Angeles Arrien (2010). “The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love, Marriage, Beautiful

  Rob Brezsny (2013). “The Televisionary Oracle”, p.111, North Atlantic Books

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• The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.

  Paul K. Chappell

  Communication, Civilization, Empathy

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• There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Inspirational, Life, Vanity

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• It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Reality, Enthusiasm, Impossible

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Creative

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• I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Believe, Secret

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• The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

  Paulo Coelho

  Passion, Hatred, Despair

  "Veronika Decides to Die". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1998.

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• Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

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• Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.

  Aphra Behn

  Novelty

  Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社

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• You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want

  William Zinsser

  Strong, Roots, Want

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Doors, Heaven, Needs

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