Professional Curiosity Quotes

A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don’t need that question answered.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'