Quotes About Discovery

There was a lot under those words. I'd go digging for it later.

how would you ever know that if you stayed your whole life in the same patch?

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.

It was hard to understand how you could know someone all your life, think that you knew everything about them, then one Sunday they'd be standing in the kitchen of the flat that you both owned and seem like a total stranger

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.

Somewhere in the world there is a magical book. What does this book do? It simply changes itself to become the book you most need at this point in your life.

You are to imagine a Realworld room with three light bulbs in it. Outside the room are three electric switches. You may only enter the room once, and you may only have one switch on when you enter the room. How can you work out which switch operates which light?

What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

In a recent survey, innovative people — from inventors to scientists, writers to programmers — were asked what techniques they used. Over 70% believed they got their best ideas by exploring areas they were not experts in

Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany.

truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

Of course, it's wrong to set a fire on purpose, but if you have a small fire already burning, let it burn and see who, if anyone, complains, runs away, or comes to help. Similar truths are discovered by breaking rules: you need to break some to learn which are just for show and which ones matter.

Wow, so much to learn!" said Volant the eagle. "Fish-eating bats, pale bats, bats with little ears, bats with long noses, bats with noses that look like leaves… Next thing you know, you're going to tell me there are bats that drink blood like vampires!" "There are those, indeed, as well," said Sully the Leaf-nosed bat.

Theology is a distinctly rare, a puzzling study, given that its practitioners are happiest when the terms of their discovery fall well short of their projected point; this is where they likely glimpse their proof.

People will certainly continue to say old things in a fresh new way to keep the study contemporary, but that doesn't change the fact that, barring an archaeological discovery to blow us all out of the water, Christian theology is probably not going to change very much.

UNLOCKING YOUR IDEA

What I learned from Jeff (and his daughter) that day is the importance of constantly, maybe even obsessively, asking "why" in your business. I learned that when you start to question things, you wind up creating these "aha" moments, which combine a sense of wonder with the knowledge of how to get something done.