Exploratory Quotes

#1. For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

Renee Fleming

#2. But with Freddy I seemed to have the best sort of conversations, where our talk became exploratory and would lead on to new ideas, like thinking aloud, and in the process of clarifying improvisatory theories I always made useful discoveries about what I thought and felt.

Victoria Clayton

#3. The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man, all seem to indicate that the pull of the future is as real as the pressure of the past.

Arthur Koestler

#4. Even before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton threw their exploratory committees into the ring, every reporter seemed to be asking, 'Which candidate are Americans more ready for: a white woman or a black man?'

Gloria Steinem

#5. He turned left, therefore, in the hope of finding better fortune in that direction, but after a while lost his nerve and turned a speculative right, and then chanced another exploratory left, and after a few more such maneuvers was thoroughly lost.

Douglas Adams

#6. By forcing a substantial elevation in collective aspirations, stretch goals can shift attention to possible new futures and perhaps spark increased energy in the organization. They thus can prompt exploratory learning through experimentation, innovation, broad search, or playfulness.38 There

Charles Duhigg

#7. Exploratory wells located invariably by a set of deterministic seismic interpretations are drilled into reservoirs under uncertainty that is invariably poorly quantified, the geologic models yawning to be optimized by a mindset that is educated in a data-driven methodology.

Keith Holdaway

#8. Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Alison Gopnik

#9. LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.

Alan Watts

#10. It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

David Almond

#11. The world is not made up of particles and waves and beams of light with a definite existence. Instead, the world works in a much more exploratory way. It is aware of all the possibilities at once and trying them out all the time. That is a hard thing to picture.

Neil Turok

#12. I grimace, thinking someone should come up with a new phrase for 'I left the ocean without a kiwi-sized chunk of my lower-left butt cheek' to replace the rather nebulous term 'exploratory bite.

Elle Lothlorien

#13. Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.

Carl Sagan

#14. But then, that's the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.
[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]

T.C. Boyle

#15. Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

Gregory Benford

#16. I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

Jim Webb

#17. True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.

Robert Genn

#18. Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

Don Hertzfeldt

#19. My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.

Catherine Stock

#20. Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.

Alex Webb

#21. Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself ... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

Harper Lee

#22. Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

Anthony Marra

#23. Traditional photojournalists arrive with an idea of what they are going to produce or what the editor wants. I approach a subject very much as a street photographer and a wanderer, without preconceptions. I try to leave it extremely intuitive and exploratory.

Alex Webb

#24. No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period.

Tammara Webber

#26. Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

Andy Partridge

#27. I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itself.

Shane Carruth

#28. There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Graham T. Allison

#29. The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.

Brian Acton

#30. I'm a good skin, natural makeup kind of gal.

Lela Rose

#31. Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

Anthony Collins

#32. The only good thing about nuclear war is that it is the single most egalitarian idea that man has ever had. On the day of reckoning, you will not be asked to present your credentials. The devastation will be indiscriminate.

Arundhati Roy

#33. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

John Milton

#34. Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil,of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and help them to see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.

Richard Bach

#35. Oh, all right! But this doesn't mean we're bonding!" "Fine. Fine." "I'm not a bondage kind of person," Angua added. "Yes, yes," said Sally. "I can see that.

Terry Pratchett

#36. Community, Identity, Stability

Aldous Huxley