--- title: "1 Think Teens Quotes By Robert Ballard" description: "1 Think Teens quotes by Robert Ballard. Plus more from Robert Ballard and more Think Teens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d5/robert-ballard-13392_best-love_most-of-the-time-you-are-growing-up-peop_1399134.jpg" --- > [Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/most-of-the-time-you-are-growing-up-people-tell-you-what-s-wrong-with/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d5/robert-ballard-13392_best-love_most-of-the-time-you-are-growing-up-peop_1399134.jpg) ## More by Robert Ballard > [I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/i-think-the-most-important-thing-people-can-do-to-save-our-planet-and/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/follow-your-own-passion-not-your-parents-not-your-teachers-yours/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/if-you-compare-nasa-s-annual-budget-to-explore-the-heavens-that-one/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/everyone-is-an-explorer-how-could-you-possibly-live-your-life-looking/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/my-final-question-why-are-we-not-looking-at-moving-out-onto-the-sea/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/there-are-more-active-volcanoes-beneath-the-sea-than-on-land-by-two/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/what-drives-me-is-exploration-with-a-purpose-more-the-classic-royal/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/there-s-probably-more-history-now-preserved-underwater-than-in-all/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/you-don-t-go-to-gettysburg-with-a-shovel-you-don-t-take-belt-buckles/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/most-of-the-southern-hemisphere-is-unexplored-we-had-more-exploration/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [I can't travel without Sudoku.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/i-can-t-travel-without-sudoku/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [ The fact that this chain of life existed \[at volcanic vents on the seafloor\] in the black cold of the deep sea and was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/the-fact-that-this-chain-of-life-existed-at-volcanic-vents-on-the/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/i-mean-technology-is-amoral-it-has-no-morality/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [I prefer sayings over jokes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/i-prefer-sayings-over-jokes/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) > [Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-ballard/forever-may-it-remain-that-way-and-may-god-bless-these-now-found-souls/) [Robert Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-ballard/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/think-teens/robert-ballard/#itemlist", "name": "1 Think Teens Quotes By Robert Ballard", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. 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