Quotes About Discovery

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.

Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

Young people have grown up watching so much content, and just to find something that they haven't seen before: that's the dream. When you stumble across a show, and you say 'I haven't seen this,' that's what we want.

Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.

We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination.

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.

When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life and death from another perspective. Every young person should be interested in that island. It's a beautiful place.

A young person, or someone who's writing in a different way - in some ways you could say, eventually someone will find them. Eventually someone will hear them. But it's good a lot of young people persevere. Because sometimes you have to send something out a thousand times before anyone recognizes your value.

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plow. The trick is just to wake thmem up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.

Everyone goes through a weirdness as a young person, especially in college, when you're trying to figure things out.

I'm really interested in going back in to the history of non-binary people and seeing how many people in history were non-binary but that didn't know it themselves or because we didn't have the language, couldn't talk about it. I know how that felt being a young person not having that language.

I've always had a fortunate knack for grabbing young talent and giving them a break.

As a young woman, before I had any money, I went backpacking across India, and I was aware of how gritty it could be.

I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.

When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

When I was younger, I was looking for this magic meaning of life.