Yearning To Explore Quotes

#1. The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

Kip Thorne

#2. It's easy to get lost in endless speculation. So today, release the need to know why things happen as they do. Instead, ask for the insight to recognize what you're meant to learn.

Caroline Myss

#3. He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Robert Walser

#4. Maintained his stance of cynicism, could not speak from grief; the two of them drove along and then Kevin slapped him on the shoulder, which is the only avenue open to men to show love for each other.

Philip K. Dick

#5. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#7. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Julien Benda

#8. Every Concatenate world faced biological problems as the habitat aged.

Bruce Sterling

#9. I wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.

Hillary Scott

#10. I find books in used-book stores, chain and independent stores, on friends' shelves and being read by some woman sitting opposite me on the subway. I find books the way a cow finds a new pasture, by looking to see where the other cows are headed.

Walter Mosley

#11. I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.

China Mieville

#12. Running footsteps sounded in the background, but it was only Daddy, so he ignored it.

Thea Harrison

#13. Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

Tom Robbins

#14. Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

David Arquette

#15. Chapter 6 will explore purpose, our yearning to contribute and to be part of something larger than ourselves.

Daniel H. Pink

#16. The one sure thing in this life is change. That is the one thing you may rely upon.

Liz Rosenberg