Discovering Quotes - Page 25

• Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

  Kristen Stewart

  Acting, Way, Classroom

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• I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.

  Paul Auster

  Distance, Writing, Different

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• Part of writing is discovering the rules of the game and then deciding whether to follow the rules or to break them. The great thing about the game of poetry is that it's always your turn - I guess that goes back to my being an only child. So once it's under way, there is a sense of flow.

  Billy Collins

  Children, Writing, Games

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I know every girl has her own form of beauty, its just a matter of discovering it and celebrating it.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Matter, Celebrate

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I don't think there's a problem with people discovering the music unless there's no way to get to them. That's the problem that you always have.

  Gail Zappa

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like feeling like I'm discovering something new. That's really a special feeling and also, you don't have it that often. At least, I don't. Maybe I'm not creative enough.

  David Rees

  Creative, Feelings, Special

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Long Walks

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• …she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Writing, Reading And Writing

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.

  Pablo Neruda

  Goodbye, Ocean, Destiny

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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• Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Science, Climbing

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• That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

  Joan Didion

  Mistake, Procrastination, Years

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 16, 2011

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• Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Real, Thinking

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• Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

  Thomas Hardy

  Way, Helping, Chance

  Thomas Hardy (1892). “Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”

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• The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Ignorance, Knowledge

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mother, Capacity To Love, Rivers

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.178, Vintage

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• Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Duplicity, Brain, Usual

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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• We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

  Steven Pressfield

  Perseverance, Teacher, Fear

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.143, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Love, Being In Love, Your Best Friend

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK

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• Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Mirrors, Negative

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• Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

  Julian Barnes

  Example, Certainty, Witness

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• I am just discovering my fashion side. I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion.

  Tasha Smith

  Fashion, Sides, Felt

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Feminists are forever discovering subtle new forms of sexism and then beating men around the head and shoulders with it. It is left to the rest of us to suffer the inevitable backlash this provokes among men. Besides, the feminists have the Federal Government behind them.

  Mona Charen

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Doctors, Attention, Emergencies

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• Is there any delight as great as the child's discovering ability?

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Delight, Ability

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

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• Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God in the truth and wisdom of many traditions. Love casts out fear inviting us into happiness for all people and Creation.

  Robert V. Taylor

  People, Ethics, Tradition

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