Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kirk Hammett

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

Kevin Costner

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

Murray Rothbard

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

Myles Munroe

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Milton Friedman

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

H. L. Mencken

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Georg Cantor

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination

Giacomo Leopardi

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the discipline itself will have a lower opinion of himself, the more excellent he is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?

Kyle Busch

Come up and talk to the driver about it. Help me out. I'm a young guy and I'm trying to learn. If you want to teach me something, come up and discuss it with me and tell me what I need to do differently.

Jennifer Haigh

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Howard Schultz

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

Howard Schultz

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

He actually just picked out the trash bag, and it felt heavier than what he expected, ... He looked inside, and that's when he discovered it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Horace Walpole

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Homer

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Homer

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

Harry S Truman

If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.

If I can get one good jump in then that can get me into the Big East and maybe something can be discovered the next week and I'm fine. You just have to keep plugging along.

If he can discover some kind of service on top of word processing that helps people work with one another over the Web, then he may be on to something.

Brian Cashman

If he has interest in us, we'll discuss it.

Martin Charnin

If God had have wanted discussion Then God would have said 'Let's discuss it'

I can't teach them that game experience in the time I have them for the two years. What you can teach them is discipline. You can teach them how to play. And they leave here better players than the were when they came.