Quotes About Discovery

Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.

For the resolving powers of our scientific instruments decide, at a given moment, of the size and the vision of our Universe, and of the image we then make of ourselves.

When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

Building the right product requires systematically and relentlessly testing that vision to discover which elements of it are brilliant, and which are crazy.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

But . . . if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things . . . about Holland.

Welcome to Holland." Written by Emily Perl Kingsley,

Therapists tell their patients: Follow your envy—it shows you what you want.

Fireflies love the dark too. There's beauty in those places. But we have to look in there to see it.

the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Mas do que temos tanto medo? Não é como se fossemos espiar naqueles cantos escuros, acender a luz e descobrir um bando de baratas. Os vagalumes também adoram a escuridão. Existe beleza nesses lugares. Mas é preciso olhar ali dentro para vê-la.

Rather than steering people straight to the heart of the problem, we nudge them to arrive there on their own, because the most powerful truths—the ones people take the most seriously—are those they come to, little by little, on their own.

Not knowing is a good place to start," he says, and this feels like a revelation. I

The climb speaks to our character, but the view, I think, to our souls

You can remember which one is which by thinking that stalactites cling tight to the ceiling, while stalagmites might rise up from the floor. Over time, the stalagmites and stalactites will meet and form a column, just like they did with old Cupid here.

Dallas to Cordelia: You were my dream, Dee. I just didn't know it.The part of me that I was always searching for.

He doesn't need to know the path to adventure. He simply needs to recognize that it awaits.

I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures." "And we're not?" "Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending. Men tend to break.

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

He'd spent his life travelling the path of least resistance, taking the easiest of routes, searching for the quickest of solutions, and with Kate, he'd discovered more satisfaction was found in fighting for something, in striving to meet her expectations.

How long do you think it will take her to figure out who you are?" "She is blind." "Then that makes two of you." Alejandro

BY INVESTIGATING GOD'S MAJESTIC AND AWESOME CREATION, SCIENCE CAN ACTUALLY BE A MEANS OF WORSHIP. —FRANCIS COLLINS