Quotes About Discovery

Look, Abdul. Star number one thousand! Woo-hoo! Stale orb! - Dan

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

when you visit a place you used to live in for a long time, you see it differently; you become more like a tourist in your own land.

where it revealed itself to him, and try not to dwell too much on his failures and losses.

the emphasis on linear systems, top-down control, relentless efficiency and eradicating failure left little room for creative discovery and trial and error.

two basic types of innovators, which he calls conceptual and experimental.

Experimental innovators like Rock, Brin and Page, Bezos, and Beethoven don't analyze new ideas too much too soon, try to hit narrow targets on unknown horizons, or put their hopes into one big bet. Instead of trying to develop elaborate plans to predict the success of their endeavors, they do things to discover what they should do.

No one can take their eye off their core business or responsibilities, but anyone can spend a portion of their time and energies using little bets to discover, test, and improve new ideas.

Some discoveries would probably have been delayed, or perhaps not made at all; but many false leads would also not have been pursued, and it is possible that medicine would have developed in a very different and more efficacious direction, emphasizing healthy living rather than cure. In

T]his is the land of liberty and equality, where a man sees and feels that he is a man merely, and that he can no longer exist, [except if] he can himself procure the means of support. —Robert Stuart, journal postscript for October 13, 1812, while starving in today's Wyoming, shortly before discovering the South Pass

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story.

ARTISTIC CREATION is a voyage into the unknown.

Nevertheless, in every piece we write, we contemplate a world; and as that world would not otherwise exist, we create it even as we discover it.

A prerequisite for finding our way through any story or novel is to be lost: the journey can't begin until we've been set down in a place somehow unfamiliar.

Our century has been dominated intellectually by a coming to terms with science.

Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.

Uncover what you long for and you will discover who you are.

What legendary travelers have taught us since Pausanius and Marco Polo is that the art of travel is the art of seeing what is sacred.

The wandering French essayist Jacques Reda reminds himself before he leaves his Paris apartment every Sunday morning for his long strolls around the city to see one new thing. . . . he has learned to notice what others ignore.

One of the ancient functions of pilgrimage is to wake us from our slumber.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ROALD DAHL

I've taken a different tack. After years of experimenting, I discovered that the more I tried to exert power directly, the less powerful I became.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. GEORGE MOORE

The Yirkalla aborigines of Arnhem Land in Australia hear sacred song words in the babbling of babies. To them, songs are never composed but only discovered: all songs exist already.