Discovering Quotes - Page 22

• I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

  Jane Fonda

  Hippie, India, Mia

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Errors, Entrepreneur, Connections

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• At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

  Chris Prentiss

  Pain, Healing, Steps

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.113, BookBaby

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• For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
  and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

  Edmond Jabes

  Writing, Miracle, Wounds

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]”, p.27, Wesleyan University Press

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• By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

  Robert Winston

  Mind, True Potential

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sick, Joy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.

  Alicia Keys

  Inspiring, Art, People

  "Alicia Keys Talks Inspiration, Family And Prayer With Origin Magazine (Photos)". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2013.

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• I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Trying, I Hate

  D. H. Lawrence, M. L. Skinner (2002). “The Boy in the Bush”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• You can never stop discovering music.

  Rashida Jones

  "Q&A: Rashida Jones On Writing, Ron Swanson And Irrationality Over Her Race" by Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. August 02, 2012.

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• I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Years, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

  Kirk Hammett

  Discovery, Knowing, People

  "Metallica's Kirk Hammett discusses vintage horror and geek bonding". Interview with Kenny Herzog, www.avclub.com. October 5, 2012.

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• What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Odd, Biology, Adaptation

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• Discovering While Doing Is Natural...
  But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!

  Sujit Lalwani

  Attitude, Winner, Natural

  Sujit Lalwani (2014). “Life Simplified!: Simplifying Lives Globally...”, p.56, Partridge Publishing

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• 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

  Discovery, Knowing, World

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.

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• It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wine, Bottles, Kind

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• The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Adventure, Land, Risk

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

  David Frum

  Foxes, Republican

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• There is no use in one person attempting to tell another what the meaning of life is. It involves too intimate an awareness. A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very discovering of it. It is an ongoing experience of growth that involves a deepening contact with reality. To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether. The meaning of life is indeed objective when it is reached, but the way to it is by a path of subjectivities. . . . The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person.

  Ira Progoff

  Life, War, Reality

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• We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fashion, Cutting, Animal

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.294, e-artnow

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• Everything comes down to this: the reason for every word I have written and every word I will write. I am recounting my life for you so that you may know this secret without the pain of discovering it: We are unhappy because we think that love is something we require from someone else. Our salvation depends on a simple gesture that is nonetheless the most difficult act we can perform: We must give away the thing we most long for. Not to receive but to give.

  Arthur Japin

  Pain, Writing, Simple

  "In Lucia's Eyes". Book by Arthur Japin, www.npr.org. 2006.

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• Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

  Clive Barker

  Being Yourself, Kings, Stars

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from May 19, 2013

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• School was the unhappiest time of my life and the worst trick it ever played on me was to pretend that it was the world in miniature. For it hindered me from discovering how lovely and delightful and kind the world can be, and how much of it is intelligible.

  E. M. Forster

  School, Lovely, World

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• Ours is the task of discovering that our true nature has nothing to fear.

  Guy Finley

  Wisdom, Tasks, True Nature

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Jan 13, 2013

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• I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

  Julia Child

  Years, Seven, Thirty

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.67, Anchor

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• Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Self, Treasure

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

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