Thomas Huxley Quotes

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

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

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I'm always looking for something new to do.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

Personally, I enjoy being able to see something that you haven't seen before.

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

One has to do something new in order to see something new.

I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

Try to be surprised by something every day.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me.

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. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Approach every day as if it's a new world, because it IS.

I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.