Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was great to discover the simple and unpretentious reaction of one of the world's best-known actors. That's what great people are made of.

It was just to see how I'd get on because I haven't got a particular discipline as well as the road and it was too good an opportunity to miss.

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?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Walt Disney

Teenagers have to discover the product. (Then) they tell their friends and it grows through a grass roots marketing effort

Kim Williams

Terence is a quality athlete. He's starting to discover what it's all about. He's going to better in May than he is now. Next year, watch out.

Siegfried Lenz

Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.

Sometimes he would go back to sites that had already been excavated, and he would use his own methodical methods and discover great new things that people had just really overlooked.

Seen in this light, ... the employee discount program was an enormously successful marketing coup.

David Hallberg

Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.

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.

Leonhard Euler

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle...

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.

Natasha Leggero

For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.

Mark Hopkins

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

Mike Brown

Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant....

Nathan Myhrvold

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Nadia Boulanger

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nhat Hanh

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Noam Chomsky

Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deep understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed.

Ken Blanchard

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Tumultuouness,if coupled to discipline and cool mind,is not such a bad sort of thing.That unless one wants to live a stunningly boring life,one ought to terms with one`s darker side ad one`s darker energies

Kostya Tszyu

If you want nothing, do what you want. If you want everything, develop discipline

Marcus Samuelsson

Chocolate is one of the world's most beloved discoveries, and when we need a quick boost of energy and endorphins, chocolate is the go-to treat.