Amy Purdy Quotes

Definition is the death of discovery.

I have to go places beyond music.

Space is big. The whole point of the frontier is that we go there to do new things in new places - not one place, and not one thing, but all of the above.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

I learned early that the richness of life is found in adventure. Adventure calls on all the faculties of mind and spirit. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. But man is not ready for adventure unless he is rid of fear. For fear confines him and limits his scope. He stays tethered by strings of doubt and indecision and has only a small and narrow world to explore.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.

It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.

You have to step over the boundaries sometimes just to find out where theyare.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?