Anne Sweeney Quotes

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

Education is the basis of creative thought: the ability to go beyond asking why to why not.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I don't have the answers. But I am asking the questions, and that's the fun part. I'm like the kid in class with his hand up, going, 'Um...' I think that's a powerful place to create from.

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.

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.

Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?