Discovering Quotes - Page 7

• After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Night, Causes, Generations

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41

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• My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.

  David Bowie

  Media, People, Together

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.46, Melville House

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• Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

  Sigmund Freud

  Travel, Home, America

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• The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

  Dan Miller

  Successful, Errors, Differences

  Dan Miller (2015). “48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Joy, Heaven

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• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Sea, Soul

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• The young person isn't certain that love can be real; the middle-aged man is only discovering that it is; and the older person seems so sure of it. I was interested in the way that many of us go through the whole of our lives staying with someone just out of complacency, because leaving isn't easy.

  Conor McPherson

  Real, Men, Leaving

  "So there's these three Irishmen". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.

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• The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Mistake, Errors, Rose

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• During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Secret, Age

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.

  Brian Evenson

  Taken, Moving, Thinking

  "5×5: Brian Evenson". Interview with Hayden Bennett, believermag.com. January 15, 2015.

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• To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Thinking, People, Humanity

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Views, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.

  W. H. Auden

  Differences, Age, Who We Are

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• Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting -- that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.

  MaryAnn F. Kohl

  Art, Children, Creativity

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  Daniel Boulud

  Japan, Thailand, Cuisine

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• Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

  Mooji

  Ego, World, Natural

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• To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Path, Accepting, Behinds

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 20, 2013

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• Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Self, Common, Therapy

  Dorothy Gilman (1967). “Uncertain Voyage”

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• I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

  Miriam Makeba

  Voice, Speaking Up, Black

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• Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

  Isabel Allende

  Talent, Born, Persons

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• I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

  Lisa Origliasso

  Artist, Nashville, Cities

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.

  Peter Jackson

  Photography, Light, Directors

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Interview with Jason Barr, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

  Jose Andres

  People, Spain, Culture

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• I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Crush, Errors, Delight

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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