Quotes About Discovery

One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I got a whole different mindset from living in Senegal and being there. I learned a lot of things, met a lot of people, and got to really find out what I wanted to work for and who I want to be and who I want to help and who I'm doing it for.

If you start with the mindset that you know nothing, you will learn a lot that nobody knew before.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

I hadn't gone to high school. I left Minnesota, I left home, I was on my own. I was seventeen.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

I always wanted to be good at something, to be somebody. The minute I got into my first play, which was called 'Excuse My Dust' - I was 17 at the time - I knew that this was what I'd been looking for.

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

People have lost faith in God and the Kingdom of God because they have put God in the wrong place. If they put God in the right place, in their own heart, the spiritual crisis will come to an end. This is a spiritual and a cultural matter. In the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions there are people who have discovered that God does not belong to the future or to another place.

When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die. But with mindfulness, your attention will water the wilting flower. "I know you are here, beside me, and it makes me very happy." With attention, you will be able to discover many new and wonderful things — her joys, her hidden talents, her deepest aspirations. If you do not practice appropriate attention, how can you say you love her?

It's not possible to save the world by trying to save it. You need to find what is genuinely yours to offer the world before you can make it a better place. Discovering your unique gift to bring to your community is your greatest opportunity and challenge. The offering of that gift — your true self — is the most you can do to love and serve the world. And it is all the world needs.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

Margot knows by looking at him that she will have to lead. It is not something that she is used to, and if someone had asked her before this evening if the idea even interested her, she would have said no. But Henry's words suggest fragility, and she thinks maybe this extends to who he is, but she can also sense his strength, hidden somewhere like a secret, and this is the part she wants to know.

H]ere was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.