Unhindered Exploration Quotes

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth.

The source of innovation is freedom. All we have - new knowledge, invention - comes from freedom. Discoveries and new knowledge come from freedom. When somebody is responsible only to himself, [has] only himself to satisfy, then you'll have invention, new thought, now product, new design, new ideas.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

The best technology is when you are free to do what you want.

I had a very free childhood and ranged around on my bicycle the way boys do. I had few restrictions.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.

That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

The total freedom means that you're enjoying what you're doing and you're involved in what you're doing, and that gives you the opportunity to experiment and have fun.