Quotes About Discovery

Eratosthenes , the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

There must be something innate about maps, about this one specific way of picturing our world and our relation to it, that charms us, calls to us, won't let us look anywhere else in the room if there's a map on the wall.

If you never open a map until you're lost, you're missing out on all the fun.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

to both sides before trying the handle; it moved

Take the first step... and the next will be revealed.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

If he'd believed at any point along this journey that he had to follow a straight path in his career, he never would have found his true calling.

Many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of. Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface.

As Joseph Campbell says, if you move in the direction of your passions, opportunities tend to appear that you couldn't have imagined and that weren't otherwise there.

They have discovered their Element—the place where the things you love to do and the things that you are good at come together. The

This is true of your own life. If you open yourself to new experiences, the odds improve exponentially of one of those experiences changing your world in a profoundly positive

The quest for your Element is really a two-way journey. It is an inward journey to explore what lies within you; it is an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you.

We don't know who we can be until we know what we can do.

use the term the Element to describe the place where the things we love to do and the things we are good at come together.

Often we need other people to help us recognize our real talents. Often we can help other people to discover theirs.

No sabremos lo que podemos llegar a ser hasta que no sepamos lo que somos capaces de hacer.

El mayor descubrimiento de mi generación es que los seres humanos pueden alterar su vida modificando su disposición de ánimo… Si cambias tu forma de pensar, puedes cambiar tu vida».

What I loved about this was that it illustrated that, when they are very young, kids aren't particularly worried about being wrong.

Encontrar el medio que estimula tu imaginación, con el que te encanta jugar y trabajar, es un paso importante para liberar tu energía creativa.

Resisting the stereotypes of intelligence in education and discovering your latent talents can change the course of your life in profound ways.

To make the Element available to everyone, we need to acknowledge that each person's intelligence is distinct from the intelligence of every other person on the planet, that everyone has a unique way of getting in the zone, and a unique way of finding the Element.

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.

los tres alcanzaron el éxito y la satisfacción personal tras descubrir aquello que, de forma natural, se les da bien y les entusiasma.