I have KNOWN plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of CHILDREN and the KIND of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that PART of staying young. But I ALSO think it's great fun growing old.

I don't THINK many people STARE at people in wheelchairs because we see it regularly. I SUPPOSE if you see more in the media it will TAKE away the CURIOSITY.

You can't just give SOMEONE a creativity injection. You have to create an ENVIRONMENT for curiosity and a way to ENCOURAGE PEOPLE and get the BEST out of them.

I never stop reading. I read EVERYTHING, and I read every day. If you never read ANYTHING, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading BOOKS. With that said, it's more important that you ask the QUESTION 'why.'

We're BORN with a curiosity about the UNIVERSE. Those PEOPLE who don't have a curiosity don't have it because it's gotten beaten out of them in some WAY.

For centuries, economic THINKERS, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have TRIED to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than OTHERS. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to RESEARCH new ways of measuring NATIONAL competitiveness.

The IDEA that a STORY has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth TELLING is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we CAME to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and OFFERING?

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of CONNECTION with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter LIVES, satisfying a CURIOSITY that was always there but that was never explored before.

Pay ATTENTION to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually TRANSLATE into LEADERSHIP ABILITY.