Tom Peters Quotes

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

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

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.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.

I like to try new things.

I'm really passionate about things I enjoy, and I like to be out there doing things, and learning and challenging myself. So it's just more fun that way, just to get out and try and do and learn and meet people and try to do something new.

For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

I always love trying new and different things.

I feel like the fools who dream and who take risks are the ones who change the world.

If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world...?

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.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I'd rather experiment than follow the same formula. I'm a curious person. It's gotten me into trouble, but I say, 'Why not? Let's try it.'

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.