Quotes About Discovery

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

I was about 15 years old, and I needed a job, and somebody I know - I don't even know who it was - said that there was a television show that needed a presenter and that I should go and audition for it, so I did. That was a show called 'The Word,' and I got that job.

When I was nine, I found a copy of 'Doctor Who: the Making of a Television Series' in the school library. It had a picture of Peter Davison on the front, and it was a formative book for me. It explained all the different departments like the script, cameras, and sets and explained how a television show is put together.

If I tell you there's cheese on the moon, bring the crackers.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

I love telling 'first' stories - first loves, first college experience, first kiss, all of those kinds of things.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

My parents - Augustine Joseph and Elizabeth - discovered my talent for singing when I was a kid. I remember them telling me that I sang a classical piece after listening to it a couple of times when I was two-and-a-half years old.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.

There's so much to see and do in Austrailia, but a lot of it is outside so I've ben immersing myself in their telly.

I did Kannada when I was in college. I wasn't even sure of what I was doing. I started figuring out my career in acting when I began doing Telugu and Tamil films.

When I was young I did not know about the Telugu film industry. Then I forayed into it and one project led to another.

For some reason, I shied away from watching Telugu films but now I am hooked to them.