Famous Quotes & Sayings

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

Kevin Nealon

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

Claire Danes

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself one and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

George Benson

I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches!

Samuel Smiles

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools.

Beeban Kidron

I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.

Albert Einstein

The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches.

Alexander Graham Bell

Grand telegraphic discovery today … Transmitted vocal sounds for the first time ... With some further modification I hope we may be enabled to distinguish … the “timbre” of the sound. Should this be so, conversation viva voce by telegraph will be a fait accompli.

Alexander Graham Bell

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Perry Farrell

We want the fans to discover and explore.

Adolph Gottlieb

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Adam Savage

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Adam Braun

True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.

Abraham Pais

To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery.

Anna Sui

Love this in the film, “Velvet Goldmine” it captures the excitement and the thrill at the moment of discovery!

Allan Savory

We simulated the predator with livestock and the perennial grassland returned. Just put the whole back, and there it was. You'll find the scientific method never discovers anything. Observant, creative people make discoveries. But the scientific method protects us from cranks like me.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

Nick Park

I went back over the sketch books I'd filled at Sheffield for ideas and discovered Wallace and Gromit, except Gromit was a cat then. I made them into Plasticene shapes and started 'A Grand Day Out.' It took me longer than I expected.

Wadah Khanfar

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

Cory Booker

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

We are ready for trial. We don't even need to go through the discovery process. We don't need their documents. We've got them all.

Halle Berry

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

Ivar Giaever

When I was 28 years old, I found myself in Schenectady, New York, where I discovered that it was possible for some people to make a good living as physicists.

I work only in the morning from 10 to noon. I still write by hand. I interrupt my writing when I feel that I've discovered something beautiful or, on the contrary, when I feel discontent.

Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Adrian Bejan

Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

Adam Shankman

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

Alfred North Whitehead

The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.

Alexander Fleming

In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.

Alexander Fleming

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.