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Quotes About Discovery

Ambelsinën, ambelsinën e jetës kërko ta gjesh se e hidhuna e jetës vjen vetë.
~ Unknown
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
You'll know when you get there. For now, just keep typing.
~ Unknown
qué más quisiera uno que irse sin conocer la vida!...
~ Unknown
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito? - No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado. - Vamos, si, es expósito. - Todos somos expósitos, Domingo
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Así, cada uno por su lado, judíos y griegos llegaron al verdadero descubrimiento de la muerte, que es el que hace entrar a los pueblos, como a los hombres, en la pubertad espiritual, la del sentimiento trágico de la vida, que es cuando engendra la Humanidad al Dios vivo.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor. He aquí que la divina mañana, virginidad del día, me trae un descubrimiento: el amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Não sei se sou eu que vencerei as ilhas, ou elas que me vencerão a mim.
~ Unknown
Freeman Dyson said: "It is characteristic of scientific life that it is easy when you have a problem to work on. The hard part is finding your problem.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Luckily, the world is absolutely full of interesting things to do. Only lack of imagination, or lack of energy, stand in the way. Otherwise each of us could be a poet or musician, an inventor or explorer, an amateur scholar, scientist, artist, or collector.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When people are asked to choose from a list the best description of how they feel when doing whatever they enjoy doing most—reading, climbing mountains, playing chess, whatever—the answer most frequently chosen is "designing or discovering something new.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In our studies, we found that every flow activity, whether it involved competition, chance, or any other dimension of experience, had this in common: It provided a sense of discovery, a creative feeling of transporting the person into a new reality. It pushed the person to higher levels of performance, and led to previously undreamed-of states of consciousness. In short, it transformed the self by making it more complex. In
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is impossible for partners not to grow bored unless they work to discover new challenges in each other's company, and learn appropriate skills for enriching the relationship. Initially
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Because our present social arrangements, however, do not provide adequate challenges for the skills teenagers have, they must discover opportunities for action outside those sanctioned by adults.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How to keep love fresh? The answer is the same as it is for any other activity. To be enjoyable, a relationship must become more complex. To become more complex, the partners must discover new potentialities in themselves and in each other. To discover these, they must invest attention in each other—so that they can learn what thoughts and feelings, what dreams reside in their partner's mind. This in itself is a never-ending process, a lifetime's task. After
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
To be enjoyable, a relationship must become more complex. To become more complex, the partners must discover new potentialities in themselves and in each other. To discover these, they must invest attention in each other—so that they can learn what thoughts and feelings, what dreams reside in their partner's mind. This in itself is a never-ending process, a lifetime's task.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A similar distinction is that between discovered life themes, when a person writes the script for her actions out of personal experience and awareness of choice; and accepted life themes, when a person simply takes on a predetermined role from a script written long ago by others. Both
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Enjoyment is characterized by this forward movement: by a sense of novelty, of accomplishment
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi