Famous Quotes & Sayings

G. H. Hardy

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

John Ruskin

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

John Polkinghorne

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

Norman Cousins

Nature has not been lavish in her endowments, but each person has his or her own potential in terms of achievement and service. The awareness of that potential is the discovery of purpose; the fulfillment of that potential is the discovery of strength.

Mike Tyson

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

Mike Tyson

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

Miguel de Cervantes

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Robert Hilburn

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Robert Henri

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

David Roberts

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

Dave Lewis

The game has to be played on the ice and you have to have passion, discipline and patience to find a way and we didn't do that.

The fundamental premise of our discipline is that over the long term, if you own very high-quality growth companies, you will eventually get rewarded. But patience is sometimes required.

Edith Hamilton

They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

The markets are going to discount Nigerian production in the price of oil. It could be that it shuts down all of Shell's onshore operations in Nigeria.

The mayor is expected to discuss where we before the storm, and what we have done since the storm, and will be unveiling an initiative for the long-term recovery.

Julie Burchill

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Lara Stone

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

Tertullian

Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Terry Pratchett

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

Terry Pratchett

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

Terry Pratchett

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Terry Pratchett

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Terry Pratchett

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Tennessee Williams

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

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.

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.