Lizz Winstead Quotes

I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

I was born curious.

I am just a curious gal who is continuing to be curious.

My parents adopted me, and then, by the age of four or five, I was asking all sorts of questions, and they found themselves with a son who was interested in the sorts of things that they valued but weren't natural to them.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

I think I'm just a naturally curious person.

I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

I think it's something you're born with - the desire to know how things work inside.

I see myself as improving. I think I'm a very curious person, and I like that about myself .

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want to figure out what's going on, so it's beautiful. It's beautiful that people are thinking.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

Man by Nature desires to know.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.