Joan Cusack Quotes

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

I longed to know the world's name.

I think for me I'm always... I find myself to be a very curious person when something interests me and I find that I'm attracted to that mystery.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

Ultimately, if you don't have an interest in what you do, it will be so much harder to make money from it.

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

The drive for working comes from everyday moments - the thrill of experiencing a young cook succeeding in what they thought was an impossible job, as well as guests being happy. I also love the unknown - discovering new things and trying to make sense of them.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

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

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.