Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Walker

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Alice Miller

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

Anne Lamott

...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.

The fact that we are in discussion with the government is a good sign.

Charlie Cook

The exemplary focus, discipline and execution that was so prevalent during (Bush's) first term is sorely lacking.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

E. O. Wilson

Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for general explanations, and, with good fortune, discoveries will follow. If they don't, the love and the pleasure will have been enough.

Doug Liman

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

Douglas Coupland

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

Dorothy Hodgkin

I once wrote a lecture for Manchester University called « Moments of Discovery » in which I said that there are two moments that are important. There's the moment when you know you can find out the answer and that's the period you are sleepless before you know what it is. When you've got it and know what it is, then you can rest easy.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

Colin Wilson

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

Colin Wilson

The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.

Claude Bernard

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Claude Bernard

Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.

Dalai Lama

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Dalai Lama

The very purpose of meditation is to discipline the mind and reduce afflictive emotions.

Dalai Lama

Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

David Ogilvy

Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?.

Daisy Fuentes

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Dag Hammarskjold

I never discuss discussions.

Cynthia Ozick

There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.

Cynthia Ozick

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Dashiell Hammett

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

David Zaslav

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

Confucius

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Daniel Yergin

According to one study by the United States Geological survey, 86 percent of oil reserves in the United States are the result not of what is estimated at the time of discovery but of the revisions and additions that come with further development.

Dane Cook

I'm watching some television tonight. I'm watching The Discovery Channel. You know, this channel, you never ever plan on watching this. It just happens. You're flickin' around, all of a sudden - boom - you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

Dallas Willard

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Andre Agassi

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

Amartya Sen

the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

Alfred de Musset

Disgrace is the synonym of discovery.