Quotes About Discovery

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

The holy grail would be to turn a knob, and out comes the nanotube of the right diameter and chirality.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor.

I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian.

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out.

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

I was 12 years old when I first realized that food could be hot. That's why I turned out the way I am.

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

You turned on the radio and heard all kinds of things.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.

I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!