Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

Leonardo da Vinci

He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Leopold Kronecker

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

Leroy Hood

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Pablo Picasso

For a long time I limited myself to one colour—as a form of discipline.

Paul Horowitz

It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

If you don't have discipline, you don't have anything

Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Louis L'Amour

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Michael Crichton

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

Michael Crichton

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Michel de Montaigne

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

Michel de Montaigne

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Marvin Minsky

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

Michelle Yeoh

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion...it was much more graceful and contained than that.

Michel Foucault

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Paul Eldridge

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.

Paul Erdos

Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten

Paul Berg

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopher’s stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.

Martha Graham

Discipline is liberation.

Marshall McLuhan

We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.

Marshall McLuhan

Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

Julia Sawalha

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's brilliant.

I really learned discipline. It will make you better.

Clayton Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.