Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Mumford

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Marc Maron

I seem to offend everybody. I just never got into the universe. I don't seem to have a tremendous amount of discipline or patience with having to follow a story that is really multi-leveled and science-fiction.

Robertson Davies

Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

Robert Owen

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

Tom Nelson

Before you can make disciples, you gotta make sure you are one.

Ronald Firbank

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Natalie Portman

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

Talcott Parsons

A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned.

Tony Robbins

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

Simon Sinek

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

Stephen Hawking

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries

Sigmund Freud

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Shahid Kapoor

You tend to understand yourself a little better after each role you play. There’s somewhat of a self-discovery.

Rem Koolhaas

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

Tim Gunn

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Tom Shadyac

Definition is the death of discovery.

Tom Kelley

The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.

Thomas Keating

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

Richard Bach

One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.

Robert Fripp

The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible.

Robert Frost

Life is tons of discipline.

Robert Benchley

The discovery of phobias by psychiatrists has done much to clear the atmosphere. Whereas in the old days a person would say: 'Let's get the heck out of here!' today she says: 'Let's get the heck out of here! I've got claustrophobia.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Rene Descartes

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.

Rumi

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

Toni Cade Bambara

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

Vanna Bonta

Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

Tryon Edwards

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.

Tarja Halonen

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

Steven Pinker

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.