James Beard Quotes

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

We're only as big as our experiences.

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

I'm constantly being approached by people who say, 'You've introduced me to a new world that I didn't even know I liked.' Even if I didn't set out to do that, I'm very proud that I have.

I really look forward to that opportunity to be a student and discover things. That keeps it interesting for me. And I sometimes get easily bored, and there are still some things I wanna talk about instead of repeating something.

I like to learn things from other cultures. I'm curious. It's exciting to be in an unknown world, in a way.

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.

I like to take walks and getting out and seeing things. These experiences are so irreplaceable and give you a whole different perspective on the greater context that you're in. If I didn't try to take advantage of that, I'd be missing out on a lot of really interesting things.

Every day is a learning day.

Learning is the gateway to adventure.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

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

The excitement lies in the exploration of the world around us.

I do videos on things that excite me... things that are new to me.

Every outing is a learning experience.

I would read. I would explore

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

A first walk in any new country is one of the things which makes life on this planet worth being grateful for.

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.