Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Humanity's greatest advances are not in its discoveries but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity

Bo Ryan

You measure a person by what it takes to discourage them.

Carl Jung

Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.

Carl Jung

All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.

Calvin Trillin

It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

William Shakespeare

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tearsMoist it again, and frame some feeling lineThat may discover such integrity.

We've got a real disconnect right now between our market and our educational system.

Billy Sheehan

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.

Raina Telgemeier

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Brad Pitt

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.

None of the great discoveries was made by a 'specialist' or a 'researcher'.

Mavis Staples

I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

Remy de Gourmont

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Barry Long

You are either ready to discover yourself or you are not. Ready means you have been knowingly or unknowingly practicing self-observation.

We wanted to make sure the kids and employees weren't put in harm's way once we discovered the materials were in the ground there.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

Paul Shaffer

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

Octavio Paz

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

While every year the Festival evolves and has a different complexion, the through line is the discovery of fresh, original voices from around the world with quality storytelling that takes risks whether it be in dramatic or documentary films.

We don't solicit donations, and there are other organizations that people can donate to and other discount retailers they can shop at.

Pete Carroll

We had hoped to discourage them in the running game.

Jessye Norman

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.

Chuck D.

You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Bertrand Russell

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

Chris Chelios

That's the most obscure place you could have it. Most players won't go. I think he set up to discourage as many people as possible from going.

Al Groh

We haven't pursued this with great urgency. He wasn't in particular discomfort Sunday and he said he was feeling even better Monday.

Zach Johnson

I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

We'll do everything in our power to discourage people walking back and forth between town.

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Retailers are really getting squeezed especially in the largest retail sector, which is the supermarket sector. In the discount sector, Sears and Kmart would be at significant risk.

Phil Keoghan

I think if we would have put people that were extraordinary athletes, extraordinary travelers in this extraordinary situation would be a total disconnect with the audience. The fact that they are more ordinary, the fact that a lot of them are unfit and have never traveled, that's what makes the show work.

Jimmy Carter

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.