Quotes About Discovery

We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.

Initiative and starting are about neither of these. They are about "let's see" and "try." If there's no clear right answer, perhaps the thing you ought to do is something new. Something new is often the right path when the world is complicated.

If you're brilliant and undiscovered and underappreciated (in whatever field you choose), then you're being too generous about your definition of brilliant.

One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that some good ones slip through.

If you had a chance to do a TED talk, what would it be about? What have you discovered, what do you know, what can you teach? You should do one. Even if you don't do one, you should be prepared to do one.

Yes, the Internet is a discovery tool, but no, you're not going to get discovered that way. Instead, you will make your impact by uniting those you seek to serve.

It's more about a five- or ten- or fifteen-year process where you start finding your voice, and finally you begin to realize that the safest thing you can do feels risky and the riskiest thing you can do is play it safe.

Start Your Journey Before You See the End

One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you'll discover that good ones slip through

Art isn't a result; it's a journey. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it.

Sí, internet es una herramienta de descubrimiento. Pero no, nadie te descubrirá a través de ella. El impacto tendrás que crearlo uniendo a aquellos a quienes pretendes ofrecer tus servicios.

Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide.

the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.

Lab assistants do what they're told. Scientists figure out what to do next.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Scientist thinks there is a biology beyond earth not because we found it, it's simply because if not then earth is some sort of miracle.

Just as with all interpersonal relationships in our life, we are made to suffer by those things we have chosen and, in confronting our choices, we gradually discover ourselves.

The shelf number for the book would be inked in beside it, but each shelf contained about fifty books, so you had to hang there on the ladder and read every spine of every one until you came across yours. Let it be said that nothing was ever accomplished in haste at Iverson.

She had been, in short, the inevitable result of everything she had been raised to be, frothy and naïve, a girl with barely a notion of her own universe, its rights and its monstrous wrongs.

To her, the journey was as important as the destination.

The fear of discovering his anger towards his father made his body shake.

The idea to go West just fell into my lap from the sky. Go west, young man. That's how the best ideas happen. Just out of nowhere. When you're not even thinking. Like they've been created for you and you just have to reach out and grab them before someone else does.