Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Babbage

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Blaise Pascal

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Billy Blanks

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

Bill Hybels

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.

Kathryn Stockett

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Arthur Symons

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

Bruce Lee

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Bruce Lee

Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Bruce Lee

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Viktor Yushchenko

We shall meet, discuss ... and shall work to find a way out of these social conflicts,

Thomas Bangalter

Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.

Thomas Bangalter

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Tommy Wiseau

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Sharon Stone

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

We're just trying to manage the discomfort that he's having.

Bob Etheridge

I have and I will always work to promote a civil public discourse.

Boethius

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Brian Greene

Before the discovery of quantum mechanics, the framework of physics was this: If you tell me how things are now, I can then use the laws of physics to calculate, and hence predict, how things will be later.

Brandon Marshall

I'm against discrimination in all forms.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Archimedes

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

Antoine Predock

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. Its an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing.

Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

This really is an exciting discovery. I'm still somewhat stunned they have such good data.

Arthur L. Herman

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.

Arthur Lydiard

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.