He was almost joyously what he had always been, a lot of gee whiz, it was all new and fresh even when surely he had seen much of it before, and it was as if he took delight in not having been changed externally by all that he had seen. David Halberstam
Enjoy every step you take. If you're curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.
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Roy T. Bennett
Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back...
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Saul D. Alinsky
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
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Laurence Sterne
... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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Norton Juster
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Albert Einstein
More Quotes By David Halberstam
[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'", March 25, 2007.)
There was, I found, always more to learn.
Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.
The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
