Quotes about disco
discouraging assurance raises
Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance. Joseph Glanvill
discovery self expression
It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise. Leland Ryken
discovery decision choices
In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well. John Kenneth Galbraith
discovery ideas want
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up. Linus Pauling
discovery imagination interesting
But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
discovery ideas waiting
We do not have to wait for future discoveries in connection with the powers of the human mind for evidence that the mind is the greatest force known to mankind. We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered. Napoleon Hill
discovery slave printing
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave. Napoleon Bonaparte
discovery imagination research
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. Meher Baba
discovery shapes produce
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover... Martin Buber
discovery theory-of-evolution religion
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory. Pope John Paul II
discovery cities interesting
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. Rem Koolhaas
discovery definitions
Definition is the death of discovery. Tom Shadyac
discovery creative serendipity
The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity. Tom Kelley
discovery reform saint
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices. Ralph Waldo Emerson
discovery unhappy too-late
It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
discovery discipline focus
Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much. Shannyn Sossamon
discovery europe birth-place
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. Lewis Mumford
discovery light internet
How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge. Rainbow Rowell
discovery fundamentals debt
Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin. Satyajit Ray
discovery serendipity today
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. Siddhartha Mukherjee
discovery interesting fields
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. Talcott Parsons
discovery accomplishment mind
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. Simone de Beauvoir
discovery luxury people
Onstage, of course, you have the luxury of rehearsal and discovery and time and comfort, which then turns into terror when you actually have to put it in front of people. Julianne Nicholson
discovery people progress
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future ... If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it m may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply the ... My own belief is that this is a more likely line of progress than trying to guess at physical pictures. Paul Dirac
discovery secret manifest
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden. Paracelsus
discovery intuition important
Intuition is more important to discovery than logic. Henri Poincare
discovery important guessing
Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?
discovery generations spontaneity
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
discovery blood ideas
Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood. Henrik Ibsen
discovery choices desire
The life-converting experience is not the discovery that I have choices to make that determine the way I live out my existence, but the awareness that my that my existence itself is not in the center. Once I 'know' God, that is, once I experience God's love as the love in which all my human experiences are anchored, I can desire only one thing: to be in that love. Henri Nouwen
discovery painful theological
Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God.
discovery poet made
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. Henry R. Luce
discovery unexpected hard
Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain. Heraclitus