Like the medieval Vikings, these were curious explorers and capable conquerors, but mostly they were inventors.
Be curious and able to explore.
McKinsey is looking for people with good communication skills who are extremely curious, resourceful, confident, and capable of extraordinary commitment and outstanding efforts.
He was quick-witted, endlessly curious, devoid of vanity and capable of great grace.
It makes me more curious, more self-aware, and capable.
Annie Kopchowsky (Londonderry) and I certainly come from the same sisterhood, curious about the world, and capable of anything.
The smart and capable and curious young Eilis arrives in New York with a head full of stories and myths and dreams, arrives in a city that she's been hearing about throughout her life, is surrounded by the real places that have been the stuff of her local lore — and, in the movie, Eilis expects nothing, imagines nothing, knows nothing, sees nothing, does nothing.
I was curious why people who are so outgoing and capable would choose a faith that imposed such restrictions on their lives.
Perhaps more important, she is just as eloquent and on the mark in describing the ends of a great public education: compassionate, involved, intellectually curious students who are motivated to read and learn, and capable of thinking independently and creatively.
I am a less curious, less capable consumer of news than I was ten or twenty years ago, when the stakes were lower.
