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5. “If you want to change your professional field, do not quit your job. Instead "date" other fields. Pick up courses, projects, internships, freelancing gigs. The financial cushion of your job will not put the pressure of a new field to be "the one" before you get to know it well.”
Ankur Warikoo
Career, Exploration, Transition, Stability, Learning
7. “I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.” Sam Walton Ideas, Exploration, Retail, Borrowing, Improvement
8. “During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.” Jimmy Carter Space, Exploration, Knowledge, Technology, Future
10. “To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.” V.S. Naipaul Writing, Experience, Exploration, Aging, Energy
11. “We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything.” V.S. Naipaul Exploration, Contribution, Perspective, Regret, Life
12. “It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.” V.S. Naipaul City, Exploration, Mystery, Change, Discovery
15. “As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.” Plutarch Exploration, Unknown, Geography, Fear, Mystery
18. “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.” Thomas Merton Self-Discovery, Exploration, Wisdom, Perspective, Meaning
19. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.” Thomas Merton Journey, Inner Growth, Symbolism, Exploration, Perspective
24. “If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?” Daniel J. Boorstin Knowledge, Ignorance, Exploration, Perspective, Discovery
34. “When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there’s no end to it.” Alice Walker Curiosity, Exploration, Learning, Growth, Endless Discovery
38. “So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. Unfortunately if I use the word ‘spirituality,’ people think they will have to chant or go sit in the temple, church or mosque, or that they have to give up their food and clothing. Spirituality is not about that. It’s about enhancing your perception.” Sadhguru Spirituality, Perception, Exploration, Consciousness, Growth
39. “This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can’t take on other challenges.” Sadhguru Bliss, Receptivity, Exploration, Challenges, Pleasant
42. “There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.” Gustave Flaubert Exploration, Habit, Perception, Observation, Uniqueness
48. “Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.” Chuck Palahniuk Writing, Exploration, Learning, Experience, Connection
49. “I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure.? A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.” Chuck Palahniuk Identity, Freedom, Exploration, Mystery, Individuality
Exploration Quotes by Famous Authors
5. “If you want to change your professional field, do not quit your job. Instead "date" other fields. Pick up courses, projects, internships, freelancing gigs. The financial cushion of your job will not put the pressure of a new field to be "the one" before you get to know it well.”
Ankur Warikoo Career, Exploration, Transition, Stability, Learning
7. “I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”
Sam Walton Ideas, Exploration, Retail, Borrowing, Improvement
8. “During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.”
Jimmy Carter Space, Exploration, Knowledge, Technology, Future
10. “To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.”
V.S. Naipaul Writing, Experience, Exploration, Aging, Energy
11. “We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything.”
V.S. Naipaul Exploration, Contribution, Perspective, Regret, Life
12. “It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.”
V.S. Naipaul City, Exploration, Mystery, Change, Discovery
15. “As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.”
Plutarch Exploration, Unknown, Geography, Fear, Mystery
18. “What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”
Thomas Merton Self-Discovery, Exploration, Wisdom, Perspective, Meaning
19. “The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.”
Thomas Merton Journey, Inner Growth, Symbolism, Exploration, Perspective
24. “If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?”
Daniel J. Boorstin Knowledge, Ignorance, Exploration, Perspective, Discovery
34. “When you are active, and you must know this so well, that the more you are active, the more you see, the more you go to see. You know, you are curious. One thing leads to another thing, and it gets deeper and deeper, too. And there’s no end to it.”
Alice Walker Curiosity, Exploration, Learning, Growth, Endless Discovery
38. “So the whole process of spirituality is just about enhancing your perception. Unfortunately if I use the word ‘spirituality,’ people think they will have to chant or go sit in the temple, church or mosque, or that they have to give up their food and clothing. Spirituality is not about that. It’s about enhancing your perception.”
Sadhguru Spirituality, Perception, Exploration, Consciousness, Growth
39. “This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can’t take on other challenges.”
Sadhguru Bliss, Receptivity, Exploration, Challenges, Pleasant
42. “There is a part of everything that remains unexplored, for we have fallen into the habit of remembering, whenever we use our eyes, what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the slightest thing contains a little that is unknown. We must find it. To describe a blazing fire or a tree in a plain, we must remain before that fire or that tree until they no longer resemble for us any other tree or any other fire.”
Gustave Flaubert Exploration, Habit, Perception, Observation, Uniqueness
48. “Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.”
Chuck Palahniuk Writing, Exploration, Learning, Experience, Connection
49. “I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure.? A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.”
Chuck Palahniuk Identity, Freedom, Exploration, Mystery, Individuality
