Quotes About Discovering

#1. And yet, every day, it seemed, I was discovering new ways to feel fourteen again. Everyday, there were new ways to be disappointed by the conversation, by the weather.

Alison Espach

#2. I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic.

Christopher Fowler

#3. Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Most people go through college and learn to read Virgil and master the mysteries of calculus without ever discovering how their own minds function.

Dale Carnegie

#5. One of the more curious facts about human beings is that they can spend a day of introspection without discovering what is obvious to anyone who has spent a half hour in their company.

Dee Hock

#6. During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

Frederick Lenz

#7. There was nothing that could prepare a person for discovering they were a pawn in a war between mythical beings. Unless you know ... you were Frodo.

Samantha Young

#8. Isn't art about breaking rules, about challenging existing systems, isn't it about discovering meaning in things or situations before others see anything in them??

Peter Lindbergh

#9. Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

Grant Cardone

#10. Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#11. Magic, she was discovering, was like poetry. Once you understood the logic, the meter, the rhyme behind it, you could embellish upon it and make it your own. On

Elise Kova

#12. No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Stephen Hawking

#13. Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. [M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Charles Taylor

#15. I was born with a heart that was two sizes too small, but when I saw my baby, it was like the Grinch discovering the true meaning of Christmas.

Jim Gaffigan

#16. I perceive myself as rather uninhibited, with a certain mathematical facility and more interest in the broad aspect of a problem than the delicate nuances. I am more interested in discovering what is over the next rise than in assiduously cultivating the beautiful garden close at hand.

Henry Eyring

#17. The New Testament says the Word became flesh. Sacramental theology is all about discovering, in fear and trembling, how to allow that Word to go on becoming flesh.

N. T. Wright

#18. Whoever says adults are better at paying attention than children is wrong: we're too busying filtering out the world, focusing on some task or another, paying no attention. Our kids are the ones discovering new contents all day long.

Anthony Doerr

#19. Books alone were not adequate preparation for life - as Mary was herself discovering. And by pointing this out, she was pointing a finger at those, like her father and Shelley, who sometimes insisted otherwise

Dorothy Hoobler

#20. To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

Tom Wolfe

#21. I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Matthew Fox

#22. Seeking, knowing, discovering, enjoying- these faculties or powers are pale and lifeless without realization.

Henry Miller

#23. I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

Abraham Maslow

#24. The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Thomas Paine

#25. Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable
it is sumpathy.

Thomas Mann

#26. He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. The problem with half-truths, I'm discovering, is that they are also half-lies.

Kimberly Belle

#28. Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

Doris Lessing

#29. Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.

Zach Galligan

#30. World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

Steve Siebold

#31. And the stone table was between them, a barrier, but there could be no barrier to the smile that was her answer. It was another new species, and Akiva thought that he could spend a thousand years with her
please
and still be discovering new species of smiles.

Laini Taylor

#32. Discovering While Doing Is Natural ...
But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!

Sujit Lalwani

#33. Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Mohsin Hamid

#34. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

Lisa J. Shultz

#35. I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#36. The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.

Vijay Krishna

#37. One of life's coolest treasure is discovering your purpose.

O. Stephen Peart

#38. Isn't victory being able to push our bodies and minds to their limits and, in doing so, discovering that they have led us to find ourselves anew and to create new dreams?

Kilian Jornet

#39. I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

David Hallberg

#40. I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Alice Braga

#41. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Barbara Ess

#42. I don't know. I love my friends, but yes, I'm discovering that they don't know me very well. It's not their fault, though. I've never let them. I've never really known myself.

Kasie West

#43. The human mind thrills at few things so much as making connections. Discovering. Solving.

Graham Moore

#44. Having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

David Levithan

#45. What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould

#46. The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers ...

Alice Childress

#47. Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

Honore De Balzac

#48. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.

Matthew Arnold

#49. After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe case of vagina elbow. It's a condition not unlike tennis elbow, but you get it from masturbating.

Chelsea Handler

#50. I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Shelby Foote

#51. Since early morning he had been like a monkey with the key to the banana plantation after discovering he was breathing the same air as the greatest hero of all time.

Terry Pratchett

#52. The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

John Scalzi

#53. So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#54. Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

E.F. Schumacher

#55. It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Andres Segovia

#56. Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.

Michael A. Stackpole

#57. Mathematics ... is a bit like discovering oil ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.

Andrew Wiles

#58. The secret of Zen masters is discovering the path of return to such moments, and knowing how to pave the way for such moments to arise. The masters know how to use the dazzling light of those moments to illuminate the journey of return, the journey that begins from nowhere and has no destination.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#59. Discovering and fulfilling your personal destiny is life's ultimate challenge and its greatest reward.

Paul O'Brien

#60. Discovering your own love language helps you understand why you feel more loved and appreciated by certain people than you do.

Gary Chapman

#61. I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

#62. We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#63. No one ever forgot the joy of bringing to work the wholeness of mind, body, and spirit; discovering in the process that such wholeness is impossible without inseparable connection with others in the larger purpose of community effort.

Anonymous

#64. The point is in life, in life alone - in discovering it, constantly and eternally, and not at all in the discovery itself!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#65. The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Thomas Mallon

#66. When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

Salman Rushdie

#67. By making yourself a life-long leaner you'll keep discovering new and exciting things about yourself and others.

Rachel Robins

#68. Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#69. A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

Pearl Zhu

#70. Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

Mooji

#71. Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

Lysa TerKeurst

#72. Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.

Ted Chiang

#73. Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a matter of application, self analysis, and experience.

James Allen

#74. Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back.
That you can't go home again.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#75. Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

John Barrymore

#76. One of my hobbies is discovering Universal laws. Here's one: if you light a cigarette, the bus always comes immediately. I have tested this theory many years, its a golden rule. If you light the cigarette, the bus ALWAYS comes.

Martijn Benders

#77. Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

Terence McKenna

#78. Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

John Maynard Keynes

#79. I am discovering how my consciousness dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#80. I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.

Steve Goodier

#81. I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

Rowan Atkinson

#82. I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

Coco Rocha

#83. The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS.

Philip Emeagwali

#84. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Thomas Merton

#85. The essence of design ... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

Kenya Hara

#86. That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

Joan Didion

#87. Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

Debasish Mridha

#88. I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Jane Fonda

#89. If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

Pharrell Williams

#90. The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

Tim Cahill

#91. Your imagination is critical to discovering your dream.

Bil Cornelius

#92. He was discovering that may be there was more him than his name. And may be, when all was said and done, he'd still be whole.

Julia Quinn

#93. That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

Joaquin Phoenix

#94. I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.

Randall Munroe

#95. I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

Joseph Kosinski

#96. Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His.

Phil Drysdale

#97. In the end, mastery involves discovering the most resonant information and integrating it so deeply and fully it disappears and allows us to fly free.

Josh Waitzkin

#98. Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything in her life left her all the more desirous of discovering easy clues to less consequential questions.

William T. Vollmann

#99. He arrived to find that she'd left, discovering then that he was all alone. Even the birds had gone. They'd abandoned their nest on the windowsill, and he was somehow certain that they'd never come back.

Matthew Norman

#100. It appeared that way, Lawrence, but this raised the question of was mathematics really true or was it just a game played with symbols? In other words - are we discovering Truth, or just wanking?

Neal Stephenson