Jodie Foster Quotes

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing something. You're intuitively following, to see where it leads.

It's weird to get asked questions that I don't know the answers to... But I like getting questions I don't know the answer to because maybe it's the first time I've been asked to articulate these things.

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

I always tell people go see something you don't know about. Something you didn't read a ton about on the internet. Something that you don't know what's going to happen because I think that kind of pleasure of finding something new and discovering it, creates a hunger in you.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

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

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.