Henry B. Eyring Quotes

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Clocks around our house were in danger because I loved to take things apart, and failed to put them back together.

Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. 'If I do this, what will happen?' is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist.

I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

Don't try to 'fix' the child's boredom - rather, let the child find his or her inner resources.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'

You never know where a breakthrough might occur, so please pursue various possibilities for potential research.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.