Taylor Steele Quotes

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.

So much of making movies is about discovery on the day, what you're figuring out. If you know everything going in, then it's not worth doing - it's already done.

Shooting should not be about delivering something I've prepared; it should be a live process of finding things out. When things happen that you haven't planned, that's when the film comes alive.

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

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.

A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.

When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.