Quotes About Discovery

Young mudlarks searching the river quag for scrap had been known to step into some discoloured patch of mud and start speaking long-dead languages, or find locusts in their hair, or fade slowly to translucency and disappear.

Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.

Sometimes he opened books and found words that had defeated him the first time he had seen them, and that he had then written down and learned. It delighted him. He felt like a fox that had tracked them. That was how it was with thorough, and climber, and khepri. When he encountered them for the second time, they surrendered to him, and he read them without pause. In

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

You can only go halfway into the darkest forest; then you are coming out the other side.

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Work Does Not Need You, You Need Work. Through Work, Destiny Unfolds. Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Mystery is created not from an unexpected moment but from an unexpected journey. We know where we're headed—we want to solve the mystery—but we're not sure how we'll get there.

Curiosity, he says, happens when we feel a gap in our knowledge.

Trip over the truth. Frey's activity allowed the vestry to discover insights for themselves

The discovery of Viagra was a similar story. Initially, the drug had been tested as a treatment for chest pain (angina), and for that purpose it was a failure. Then patients started reporting a curious side effect. (Imagine those awkward conversations: "Doc, my chest still hurts Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but, um, I've been noticing an effect somewhere else Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â)

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

the Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it is preceded by the Huh? experience.

Surprise isn't enough. We also need insight.

it was like "peeling an onion" where we were going just slightly deeper on each exchange and when finished, we had moved quite a bit.

Solutions-focused therapists use a common set of techniques for discovering potential solutions.

Guthrie doesn't share his findings from his customer meetings; he creates a situation where they can replicate his discovery. It becomes their own insight, and as a result, they're motivated to act.

themselves. In turn, that discovery makes the need for action obvious. Guthrie doesn't share his findings from his customer meetings; he creates a situation where they can replicate his discovery. It becomes their own insight, and as a result, they're motivated to act. Similarly, CLTS facilitators see the problem vividly, but they don't share their concerns directly. They let the villagers see for themselves. The

This three-part recipe—a (1) clear insight (2) compressed in time and (3) discovered by the audience itself—provides a blueprint for us when we want people to confront uncomfortable truths.

Sometimes, in life, we can't get our bearings until we trip over the truth.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?