Quotes About Discovery

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

A timeless lesson for a deeply fulfilling life is to discover your calling, that special work or consuming occupation that fully engages your special talents with your passions.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times.

I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

There's no term to the work of a scientist.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.