Yo-Yo Ma Quotes

We do not grow by knowing all of the answers, but rather by living with the questions.

When you've managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown - either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude - there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I like the idea of finding parts that I know I can do but I don't totally understand them right away.

Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

I am learning that in life it is OK to travel in darkness, not knowing what your next move is.

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.

You just have to make sure you keep living your life, challenging yourself, putting yourself in unusual experiences, thinking about what you're interested in doing, and going there.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

Most of us fully expect that we're going to learn things we didn't know about.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness