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In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer
Secrecy
Intimate
Must
Admitted
Case
Absolute
Never
Allowed
Mere
Induced
Although
Go
Effective
Curiosity
Just
Anyone
Acquaintance
Persons
Ask
Many
Vague
Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Our
Astonishment
Indeed
Fact
Individual
Taken
Practical
Arouse
Itself
Curiosity
Us
Useful
Each
Each Individual
Applications
I move around a lot. I've lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.
Hilarie Burton
Life
Time
Month
Having
Only
Gypsy
Like
Around
Lot
Curiosity
Move
Different
Places
Rabid
Different Places
Deep
Lived
Ton
Two
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
Truth
Science
Primarily
Scientist
Motivated
Curiosity
Desire
Studying my grandfather's life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.
Jack Schlossberg
Life
Good
Me
Determination
Compassion
Face
Humility
Others
More
No-One
Takes
Studying
Tall
Opposition
Legacy
Than
Curiosity
Public
Grandfather
Stand
Your
Shown
Beliefs
Believed
Servant
Things
I can just let my curiosity wander unleashed.
James C. Collins
Unleashed
Curiosity
Just
Wander
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey Robinson
Rare
Those
Only
Indispensable
Fail
Idle
Very
Curiosity
May
Realize
Who
Thing
I would have thought he would be there out of just plain curiosity. It was incredible that he was missing.
James Kirkwood
Thought
Incredible
Out
Would
Would-Be
He
Missing
Curiosity
Just
Plain
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
James Mirrlees
Words
Problems
Own
Other
Responding
Diverted
Pursue
Advancement
Encourage
Curiosity
Get
Trying
In Other Words
Your
Incentives
Based
Things
Lured
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that.
James Mirrlees
Problems
Own
Pursue
Encourage
Curiosity
Your
Based
What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
James Wolcott
Stars
Tabloid
Never-Ending
Source
Curiosity
Sensibility
The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.
Jamie Hyneman
World
Our
Out
Put
Like
Most
Proud
Doing
Curiosity
Playing
Core
Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.
Jamie Hyneman
Science
Our
Neither
Involve
Sort
Scientists
Lot
Curiosity
Just
Anything
Happens
Us
Engineers
Fun
Satisfying
Thing
Adam
There are a lot of scientists or other people who can be very skeptical or rational within their field, but they may well not do that in other aspects of their lives, when it comes to things like religion, or what have you. People have this amazing gift for being selective with their curiosity and skepticism.
Jamie Hyneman
Religion
You
People
Gift
Amazing
Field
Other
Rational
Selective
Like
Well
Within
Scientists
Lot
Very
Curiosity
May
Being
Skeptical
Skepticism
Aspects
Who
Lives
Things
Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
Janet Mock
Society
Our
Vital
Curiosity
Growth
My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.
Jason Mraz
Life
Parents
Shared
Supportive
Perhaps
Accepting
Always
Were
Very
Curiosity
Even
In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
Jenna Wortham
Few
Way
Scale
Blackness
Both
Tends
Invite
Identity
Because
Without
Curiosity
America
Suspicion
Which
Whiteness
Evaluate
Found
Largely
As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
Joanna Coles
You
People
Long
Curiosity
Interested
Forward
Things
As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.
John Burnside
World
Other
About
Consumed
Like
Felt
Child
Curiosity
Creatures
I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.
John DeLuca
Me
Sports
School
Thought
Year
Out
High
Tried
High School
About
Never
Had
Always
Wizard
Wizard Of Oz
Curiosity
Senior
Senior Year
Oz
Really
Production
Acting
Career
My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.
John Hodgman
People
Way
Admire
Magazine
Weasel
Writer
Idea
Adventures
Go
Curiosity
Largely
Lives
Career
Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.
John Hurt
Alive
Out
About
Only
Very
Curiosity
Curious
Where
Really
Marching
I am classically trained in French pastry, but I am American and have a natural curiosity and playfulness that comes through in my cooking. I like to present flavors that people are familiar with in unique combinations and forms that may surprise them.
Johnny Iuzzini
Natural
Cooking
People
Through
Combinations
Like
French
Am
Surprise
Familiar
Trained
Pastry
Curiosity
American
May
Forms
Flavors
Them
Unique
Present
One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely scientific curiosity.
Joseph Jacobs
History
Say
Purely
Properly
Almost
Scientific
Geographical
Motive
Discovery
Begins
Curiosity
The History Of
So-Called
Might
Cook
Captain
Whose
Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think that's all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.
Joshua Michael Stern
Positive
You
People
Looking
Think
Jobs
About
Only
Generally
Steve
Steve Jobs
Well
Because
Does
Am
Doing
Lot
Questioning
Provocative
Curiosity
Curious
Any
Going
Just
Want
Movie
Skepticism
Whoever
Film
Thing
We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.
Karyn Kusama
Creative
Progress
Fire
Our
Way
Thrown
Never-Ending
Openness
Occasional
Accept
Frequent
Making
Making Movies
Curiosity
Unexpected
Being
Process
Movies
Stamina
Requires
Setbacks
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