Famous Quotes & Sayings

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

Iain McGilchrist

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

Iain Banks

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Eric Braeden

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

Flea

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Frank Welker

I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.

Edwin Morgan

I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.

Disclosure and transparency are the currency of the Internet, and they are at odds with authoritarianism.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

Fabiola Gianotti

The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Albert Bandura

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

Albert Hofmann

It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.

Annie Dillard

Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

D. H. Lawrence

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

D. H. Lawrence

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

Cullen Hightower

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Clint Eastwood

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

David Attenborough

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

Don Tapscott

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis.

Craig Mello

Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity

Clive Bell

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Clive Owen

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

Andre Dubus

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

Andre Breton

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Anais Nin

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

Anne Hathaway

[ Working Meryl Streep] I just felt like I was shaving years off my discovery as an actress to realize, "Okay, that's what this feels like."

Ansel Adams

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

Anna Deavere Smith

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Andre Maurois

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

Ambrose Bierce

DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.