Adventure is an event out of the ordinary without being necessarily extraordinary.

Adventure is not to say "always" but to say "immediately".

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble.

Adventure is stepping through brand-new doors with your mouth shut and your eyes wide open.

Ambition is the golden mean between sloth and greed.

Ambition is overrated — Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.

Ambition is like hunger : it obeys no law but its appetite.

Ambition is most aroused by the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind, consisting in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Creativity is the act of letting down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you are doing.

Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

Curiosity is, as neugierig, an avarice (gier) of the new (neu), an everyday tendency of Dasein to let itself be restlessly carried along solely by the way the world appears.

Curiosity is a search for novelty and endless stimulation rather than belonging or dwelling.