What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.
I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
. . . It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.
Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.
What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.
Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.
Ideas come from curiosity.
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.
I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity. . . I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.
Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. " Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.
