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“I believe that all technological societies tend to self-destruct. The reason is that the very things that make us a successful technological society, such as our curiosity, our ambition and determination, will also cause us to fall.”

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Author:Pete Seeger

“You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.”

People Long Shows Term Successful Ambition Curiosity Get Better Long Term Being Successful Willingness

Author:Roger Goodell

“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”

“Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.”

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.”

“I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.”

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Book:A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of gratifying them than a mathematician.”

Ifs Science Chance Pride Ambition Intellectual Research Curiosity Intellect Mathematician Dominant Incentives Intellectual Curiosity

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.”

Men May Play Science Certain Knowledge Pure Ambition Discovery Accounts Curiosity Useless Ambitious Quests Sooner Or Later Physiology Misplaced

Book:Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart

Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart