Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I don't see the demand. We've been discussing that at our landlord meetings.

I am very much in line with my work. Surely, there are things I would want to realize, but for now I mainly have to discuss that with myself.

Junichiro Koizumi

I am not disappointed in the president's position. (He) is enthusiastic about environmental issues, and there is still time to discuss this issue.

I am not interested in having a discussion with them about freezing this operation.

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound.

I don't think this is an important question right now. The final is my objective for the time being. I'm not discussing that.

However, it is premature and inappropriate for us to discuss this further.

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.

James D. Watson

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Jamaica Kincaid

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery.

Jack Williamson

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

Isaac Asimov

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Isaac Asimov

There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.

Isaac Asimov

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Irving Babbitt

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

Chico's is a great company, and even though it did well last quarter and everything is fine, people are starting to discount a slower future.

Tom Coughlin

He threw for greater distance and felt good about that. He also threw a few more passes than yesterday and didn't have any discomfort at all, which is a good sign.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.