Curiosity Quotes - Page 40

• Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Teacher, Passion, Mind

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• I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Passion, Mean, Giving

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• If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Rehab, Intriguing, Ifs

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• The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Morning, Wake Up

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• To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

  Robert Bly

  Nature, Crazy, Voice

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• Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Wonder, Ends

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• I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

  A. S. Byatt

  Thinking, Virtue, Prize

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• To run this business ... you need ... optimism, humanism, enthusiasm, intuition, curiosity, love, humour, magic and fun, and that secret ingredient-euph oria.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Fun, Optimism

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• Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

  Sam Walton

  Cat, Competition

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• Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Couple, People, Trying

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• If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

  Rolf Potts

  Moving, Eye, Simple

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Giving, Annoying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.41, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

  Manju Kapur

  Powerful, Talking, Aphrodisiac

  Manju Kapur (2010). “A Married Woman”, p.186, Faber & Faber

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• Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Giving Up, Struggle, Exercise

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky (2013). “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading”, p.119, Harvard Business Press

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• My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

  Mario Testino

  Opportunity, Thinking, Doors

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• The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

  Viktoria Modesta

  Moving, Envy, Feelings

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• Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.

  Stephanie Pace Marshall

  Creativity, Reflection, Discovery

  Stephanie Pace Marshall (2006). “The Power to Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning and Schooling to Life”, p.38, John Wiley & Sons

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• We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

  John Medina

  Jobs, Lifelong, Medina

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.133, Pear Press

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• What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

  Wayne Muller

  Destiny, Capture, Draws

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• Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on Ice encouraged a new kind of curiosity in me about things I would have thought boring before. Now I'm considering to pursue Geology after high school. Girls on Ice opened a door to new thoughts and interests for me to consider for my future.

  Chloe Smith

  Girl, School, Doors

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• Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

  Jim Blasingame

  Intuition, Educated, Employed

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• Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Memories, Skills, Organization

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Passion, Adventure, Done

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• If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.

  Oliver Lodge

  Time, Science, Museums

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1914). “Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913”

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• Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

  Dave Eggers

  World

  Dave Eggers (2013). “The Circle”, p.61, Vintage

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