Paula Patton Quotes

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

To me, it's always good to retain a sense of wonder and never good too big for life, like you've seen it all before.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

I'm just a member of the audience with each project I work on, and I hope to never lose that. It's my touchstone. It's the thing I never want to overanalyze.