Findings Quotes - Page 39

• You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Hearing, Facts

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.199, Macmillan

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• For the hundredth time tonight, I’m back with Lulu, on Jacques’s barge, the improbably named Viola. She’d just toldme the story of double happiness and we were arguing over the meaning. She’d thought it meant the luck of the boy getting the job and the girl. But I’d disagreed. It was the couplet fitting together, the two halves finding each other. It was love. But maybe we were both wrong, and both right. It’s not either or, not luck or love. Not fate or will. Maybe for double happiness, you need both.

  Gayle Forman

  Girl, Jobs, Fate

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• I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

  Veronica Roth

  Loneliness, Lost Everything, Tobias

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Now the choices you make are not about finding your path. Rather, they are choices to open the path you have found.

  Ilchi Lee

  Choices, Path, Found

  Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.122, Healing Society

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• But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Pockets, Way, Shallow

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

  David McCullough

  Love, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 17, 2012

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• The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Twitter post from Jan 7, 2014

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• The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Prayer, Important

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• Barack, like any leader, is human.
  And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil.
  Because our challenges are us.
  The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change?
  What are we gonna do differently?

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Leadership, Country

  "Michelle Obama On Love, Family & Politics". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2008.

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• One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Believe, Responsibility

  "Housewives, Sure, but What Makes Them Real?" by Neil Genzlinger, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2011.

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• We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.

  Cathy O'Brien

  Business, Talking, Trying

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• The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Business, Ideas, Stories

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• We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Education, Lying, Pushing

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• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Science, Supposing That

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspiring, Graduation, Beautiful

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• Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

  Herbie Hancock

  Music, Infinity, Jazz

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016

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• In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

  Matsuo Basho

  Writing, Poetry, Doubt

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• A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

  George W. Bush

  Giving, President, Would Be

  Remarks Prior to a Meeting With Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Earley and an Exchange With Reporters, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 26, 2001.

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• If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

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• Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth.
  A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Doe, Lunatic Asylums

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• In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Religion, Atheism, Earth

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• True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Giving, Community, Religion

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• I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Respect, Xenophobia, Believe

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• A hypothesis or theory is clear, decisive, and positive, but it is believed by no one but the man who created it. Experimental findings, on the other hand, are messy, inexact things, which are believed by everyone except the man who did that work.

  Harlow Shapley

  Science, Men, Hands

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• Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Strength, Organization

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