Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I don't want to do something that I've done before; I can't see the point of it.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.