Quotes About Finding

Rather than a situation where people are naturally finding themselves reading the same thing and then talking about it, some readers are responding to celebrity in the hope that what they read will enable them to join an international conversation.

It's a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations we are willing to have, and by the number of uncomfortable actions we are willing to take. The most fulfilled and effective people I know—world-famous creatives, billionaires, thought leaders, and more—look at their life's journey as perhaps 25 percent finding themselves and 75 percent creating themselves.

Mindfulness: guía práctica para encontrar la paz en un mundo frenético (Paidós, 2013), de Mark Williams

I moved to New York in 2003, I was a very young 22-year-old, so I just kind of started finding my way as a human and was working odd jobs here and there.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Bands like Arcade Fire finding a larger audience has opened a lot of doors. They've empowered a whole community in Montreal.

To find is the thing.

There was, however, a fundamental difference - namely, that Maggie Louise, at least at that point in her life, had the ability to be satisfied, which, while different from being happy, is essential in finding contentment. In this regard, there may be two kinds of people, or perhaps, more accurately, two extremes, and if so, Agee and Maggie Louise represented them.

If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.

He wasn't interested in asking questions, only in finding answers. What's the difference? asked Baedecker. He felt the conversation slipping out of his control, dropping away from him like an aircraft that had reached stall speed. The difference is that Scott took the line of least resistance, said Maggie. Like most people, he found it too uncomfortable to be out in the open, unsheltered by some shadow of authority. So when the questions got too hard, he settled for easy answers.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

Jonathan Haidt. See Haidt (2006), The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, New

You can't find peace until you fin fall the pieces.

Children of borderlines and survivors of hurricanes have much in common. Survival is dependent on finding a safe place, staying low, and not being fooled by the eye of the storm.

What all disciplines have in common is a search for rules and a commitment to them. And what all great learners have is a deep appreciation for finding better rules and a commitment to keeping them. That is why great learners are careful about what commitments they make and then keeping them.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

tra il gruppo dei «ragazzi di via Panisperna» e lui, c'era una differenza profonda: che Fermi e «i ragazzi» cercavano, mentre lui semplicemente trovava. Per quelli la scienza era un fatto di volontà, per lui di natura.

There are things that a man must do, that a god may not. He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

the essence of codebreaking, finding patterns, and because it's such a basic human function, codebreakers have always emerged from unexpected places

That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.