Quotes About Discovery

You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.

Seeing the world is the greatest thing a man can do.

My work is a means of discovery – about the world, about history, about myself!

I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

'Splitsvilla' was like a dream come true for me. Because it doesn't happen easily that you find your Mr. Right on a reality show.

I think my favorite album was probably Realization.

When I found film, it was like, 'Of course!' It was this very intense realization that this is perhaps the most powerful, honed context that I've found.

You think you've done it all, and then you realize, 'No, there's so much more to do.'

The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

I went and hung out at a foot fetish party, and I knew that was a very popular fetish to have, but I didn't realize how amazing it would be to have it.

The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

I wanted to be a dramatic actor. I never realized I was funny until I was 20-something.

I grew up on the Beatles; I love Linkin Park and Green Day. I heard hip-hop for the first time at 11 and realized what I was missing.

I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.

When I saw 'Caddyshack,' I realized I couldn't act.

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.

The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.

When I graduated from UCLA, I actually started interviewing for banking jobs. But at some point I realized a career in banking felt more like a continuation of school than a passion.