Tom Robbins Quotes

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

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

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 find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

Just go out and do things, and those things that continue to spark an interest, do more of.

I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people's imagination around that idea of pushing out, is one of the most positive things that I think I could be involved with.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

Every day, teachers across the country excite their students with new opportunities and experiences.

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

Definition of a wanderer: a guy who's always looking beyond.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.