Curious Quotes - Page 39

• I don't think you can create luck. You're either lucky or you're not. I don't know if it's really luck or if it's just curiosity. I think the main ingredient, or a main ingredient for photography is curiosity. If you're curious enough and if you get up in the morning and go out and take pictures, you're likely to be more lucky than if you just stay at home.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Morning, Home

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• I feel curious about every situation I'm in.

  Paloma Faith

  Situation, Feels

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• I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

  Peter Greenaway

  Art, Teaching, Apology

  "Rome Interview: Peter Greenaway On ‘Goltzius And The Pelican Company,’ Sergei Eisenstein, 3D & The Future Of Cinema" by Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

  Terry Gross

  Confused, Thinking, Asking Questions

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• From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what's underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.

  Tina St. John

  Heart, Character, Unique

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• In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

  Herman Koch

  Children, Parent, Way

  "'The Dinner' Asks: What Will You Do To Protect Your Family?". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.capeandislands.org. February 18, 2013.

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• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

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• People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?

  Randy Johnson

  Eye, Successful, Long

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• Many times when you're a tourist you can just stay on the surface and not really experience the place you're visiting, which will probably leave you disappointed. Everywhere has something interesting; it's just about being curious enough to find it and scratch where you have to scratch and stay longer and walk further.

  Diego Luna

  Interesting, Tourists, Scratches

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• I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

  Aaron Levie

  Inspiration, Technology, Entertainment

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• Only a life lived for others is a life worth while . I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious . I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are details. Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Smart, Joy

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• I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

  David Oyelowo

  Stars, Character, Thinking

  "Q&A: David Oyelowo Goes Toe-to-toe with Tom Cruise" by Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

  Louise Rennison

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• I love to travel. I'm a curious person.

  Hilary Swank

  Persons

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Backgrounds, Turns

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• We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, War, Buddhism

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• Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

  Erica Jong

  Reality, Photograph, Indicators

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

  Will Self

  Art, Long, Literature

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• Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

  Dean Ornish

  Ideas, Patient, Recommendations

  "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The Internet is allowing for us to really experience people in some of the most distant places in the world - as other people just like us. So get to know people, seek out bloggers from a country you're kind of curious about. It's about building empathy and breaking through to the point of recognizing people as people.

  Jimmy Wales

  Country, People, Empathy

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• To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too surprising.  But this book-half microscope, half telescope-shadows grief, our shared and ordinary life where an old neighbor obsessively gathers twigs to wish back the tree, where the moon is regularly ‘sawn in half,’ where sprinklers give off ‘little wet speeches.’  What else?  It's brilliantly instead and odd.

  Marianne Boruch

  Grief, Book, Sadness

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• I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.

  Zoe Kazan

  People

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

  Esther Meynell

  Home, Garden, Simplicity

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

  Randy Gage

  Morning, Trying, Next

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