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Quotes About Discovery

My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if you must and keep faking it until it's real to you. The gift you will be giving yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery, one that is infinite and infinitely rewarding. Begin the journey. Today. This moment. Now.
~ Robert White
Why was it given to Darwin, less ambitious, less imaginative, and less learned than many of his colleagues, to discover the theory sought after by others so assiduously? How did it come about that one so limited intellectually and insensitive culturally should have devised a theory so massive in structure and sweeping in significance?
~ Robert Wright
No tienes que buscar el amor; tan solo has de buscar y encontrar todas las barreras internas que has erigido para ocultarlo».
~ Robert Wright
Bloom relates the story of Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering learning that a painting he owned, which he'd thought was a genuine Vermeer, was in fact a forgery. At that moment, according to one observer, Goering looked "as if for the first time he [had] discovered there was evil in the world.
~ Robert Wright
Brain scans are showing that a curious state of mind involves activity in the dopamine system.
~ Robert Wright
We're designed by natural selection to get satisfaction out of finding the answers to questions.
~ Robert Wright
Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.
~ Roberta Lieberman
Qué es lo que puedo hacer yo? Cuando tuvo la idea, cuando una pequeñita idea lo cercioró de que podía defraudar a sus patrones, experimentó la alegría de un inventor. ¿Robar? ¿Cómo no se le había ocurrido antes? Y Erdosain se asombró de su incapacidad llegando hasta reprocharse falta de iniciativa, pues en esa época (tres meses antes de los sucesos narrados) sufría necesidades de toda naturaleza, a pesar de que diariamente pasaban por
~ Roberto Arlt
Porque él no le dio a su carne, que tan poco viviría, ni un traje decente, ni una alegría que lo reconciliara con el vivir, él no había hecho nada por el placer de su materia, mientras que a su espíritu no le fue negada ni la geografía de los países para quienes los hombres aún no han descubierto maquinas para llegar.
~ Roberto Arlt
Le miré con frialdad, esa frialdad que proviene de haber descubierto un secreto que nos puede beneficiar inmensamente.
~ Roberto Arlt
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
~ Roberto Assagioli
life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me).
~ Roberto Bolano
Great physicists, great mathematicians, great chemists, and publishers knew that one was always feeling one's way in the dark.
~ Roberto Bolano
Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear?
~ Roberto Bolano
He also discovered that he was bitter and full of resentment, that he oozed resentment, and that he might easily kill someone, anyone, if it would provide a respite from the loneliness and rain and cold of Madrid, but this was a discovery that he preferred to conceal.
~ Roberto Bolano
These weren't comforting nights, much less pleasant ones, but Espinoza discovered two things that helped him mightily in the early days: he would never be a fiction writer, and, in his own way, he was brave.
~ Roberto Bolano
That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave.
~ Roberto Bolano
todos los libros del mundo están esperando a que los lea).
~ Roberto Bolano
You have to change. You have to turn yourself around and change. You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.
~ Roberto Bolano
Soñé que en un cementerio olvidado de áfrica encontraba la tumba de un amigo cuyo rostro ya no podía recordar.
~ Roberto Bolano
Estar solos es, básicamente, viajar
~ Roberto Bolano
En el camino de los perros mi alma encontró a mi corazón.
~ Roberto Bolano
En esos días experimenté algo que se parecía si no a la felicidad, sí al entusiasmo, caminando al azar por calles que antes no frecuentaba y que indefectiblemente terminaban en la Via Tiburtina o en el Parco di Traiano.
~ Roberto Bolano