Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Rutherford

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

Carly Schroeder

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

Carly Simon

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Discipline is part of my professional training as a lawyer.

Kumail Nanjiani

You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague, 'Motivate yourself!' and do something. Its specific hours set aside every day for certain things.

Haim Ginott

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

Graham Moore

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

Jim Cantalupo

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Jim Broadbent

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Jay Leno

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election...

Buzz Aldrin

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline.

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.

Julian Barnes

Perhaps the world progresses not by maturing, but by being in a permanent state of adolescence, of thrilled discovery.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas,Average minds discuss events,Simple minds discuss people.

For the past 40 years, the law on voting rights has worked well to enfranchise the disenfranchised. But the threats to minority voters and efforts to discourage minority voters continue.

Richard Boucher

For our part, the United States stands ready to return to the talks to discuss the proposals that have been on the table since June.

Ivan Illich

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Ishmael Reed

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.

Irvin D. Yalom

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Gloria Steinem

It would help not to treat age as if it were any less of a pleasure than it was when we were six and saying, 'I'm six and a half.' You know, we could be saying, 'I'm fifty and a half' and say it with joy. Each age is different and has different discoveries and pleasures.

Gloria Steinem

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

Harold E. Varmus

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.

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.