#adventure

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#bounds #individuality #life #morality #wells

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do. ↗

— Glenn Close

#acting #adventure #basically #examining #heart

Australia and Canada were settled by adventurers, they had to break new ground. I think that is indelibly etched on our cultural spirit. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#australia #break #canada #cultural #ground

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.' ↗

— Zac Efron

#batman #films #i #i love #like

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#beautiful #characters #fiction #fiction writers #i

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#consequences #courage #essential #forethought #god

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change. ↗

— Rik Leaf

#life #pursuing-happiness #risk-taking #change

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile. ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#adventure #mystery #suspense #thriller #travel