Quotes About Discovery

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

What is a first line, but a door flung open by an unseen hand

Another suitor you failed to mention?" he asked, only half in jest. Her eyes widened innocently, she started to shake her head - and froze. "Look mister," Jim said tiredly. "I don't know who you are, and I don't care. You're too damn old for her-" "Hi, Daddy.

If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

Nothing in all those "O swan" poems had ever mentioned that they hissed. Or resented being mistaken for felines. Or bit.

The inner urge that sets us seeking is itself the thing we are looking for. Karlfried Graf Durckheim

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber

Through soundless labyrinths of dream you pass, through many doors to the one door of all.

Whitman had a profound influence on me. That was during my sophomore year when I came down with a bad attack of Whitmanitis. But he did me a lot of good, and I think the influence is discoverable.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change to be brought off, which I'd missed the day before.

Cosmos mariner destination unknown

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Monday - tried to prove theorem, Tuesday - tried to prove theorem, Wednesday - tried to prove theorem, Thursday - tried to prove theorem, Friday - theorem false.

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.

Dar cel care cauta asa cum trebuie gaseste intotdeauna. Nu exista vreo problema fara solutie. Daca nu o gasesti, e pentru ca nu ai cautat-o asa cum trebuie ori indeajuns. Orice broasca are o cheie. Nici un lacatus nu este destul de nebun ca sa fabrice broaste fara cheie.

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

discovering (or creating) new market space (that is, innovation!) should be the goal and ambition of every company.

The Windows In these dark rooms where I pass such listless days, I wander up and down looking for the windows – when a window opens there will be some relief. But there are no windows, or at least I cannot find them. And perhaps it's just as well. Perhaps the light would prove another torment. Who knows what new things it would reveal?

Holzwege são, em alemão, os caminhos na floresta abertos pelos lenhadores para poder transportar os troncos depois do corte: por esses caminhos não se vai para lugar algum, só se entra na floresta até chegar a um ponto de onde só dá para voltar. Deveríamos todos percorrer com alegria, na nossa cultura e no nosso pensamento, caminhos que não precisam ir a lugar nenhum, que apenas nos dão acesso a alguns buracos na floresta.

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