Quotes About Discovery

Musically, I always wanted to experiment.

San Diego is where I really started to get my legs, musically.

I'll tell you what's crazy: Nobody in my family is musically inclined, no form, fashion, anything. I always had some type of connection to music though. This was long before I ever knew that I could sing, or I ever even tried to start singing. It was something different, man, it made me feel some type of way.

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music.

I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it.

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

I was very lucky that more experienced musicians allowed me to caterwaul until I figured out what it was really about.

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

I didn't know I could sing until I auditioned for 'Les Miserables.' My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've never been to a jazz show before, but, man, I'm so happy I came. I can't wait to go home and see more.' And you can feel it in the crowd, too. You can see the groups of people that don't really know what to expect.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I want people of my generation who've never seen 'Endeavour' before to enjoy this series.

Going to drama school was the start of my journey of discovery and getting to know myself.

Jaipur plays an important role in my journey of becoming an actress. It all began in this city. One day, someone spotted me in the city and asked me to come for a photoshoot.

Hawaii was so integral to my journey. I was just there at the right time.

I know that my great-grandfather - George Rich - was born in Cape Town in 1866 and it set my journey off to go to Cape Town to discover and find out more.

My journey into the world of work after that was a bit more piecemeal than I would have liked, and it took a while to find the place in the world where I truly felt I belonged.

For me, my life is a journey.

When I came to Australia in 1987 as an adoptee from India, I could not have had any idea where my life journey would take me.

God definitely blessed me with power. I still don't know the limits of my own power.