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Quotes About Discovery

You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
~ William Stafford
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.
~ Shel Silverstein
A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.
~ Gillian Anderson
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
~ Moby
The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.
~ Steve Cosson
Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment.
~ Robert Glasper
When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.
~ Tara Brach
It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
~ Lewis Thomas
I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .
~ Steven Sebring
I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.
~ Lindsey Vonn
Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
~ Madeleine Peyroux
I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.
~ Mark Hoppus
The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.
~ Milton Friedman
Every book is a unique experience.
~ Mordicai Gerstein
My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.
~ Nick Kroll
I'm just thankful that even at a young age, I got to experience something like 'X Factor, ' and I got to meet enough people just to know that I needed to be patient until the right deal came around.
~ Jacob Whitesides
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
~ Raymond Duncan
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
~ Thomas A. Edison
Never Say I Failed 99 Times, Say I Discovered 99 Ways Which Causes Failure!
~ Thomas A. Edison
Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
~ Nick Vujicic
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by failures.
~ Humphry Davy
If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this.
~ Unknown