Discovering Quotes - Page 10

• I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.

  Anthony Hecht

  Gratitude, Eye, Order

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• Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.

  Stuart Wilde

  Confusion, Focus, Energy

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Intelligent

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Thinking, Years

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• The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.

  Richard Farson

  Leadership, Eye, Ideas

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• Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Giving Up, Years

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• It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.

  William Anders

  Moon, Space, Ironic

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• Keep this point clear: central to discovering an experience's perceptual meaning is a recognition of its identity and its individuality.

  Edmund Blair Bolles

  Individuality, Vision, Identity

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

  Gerald Schroeder

  Knowledge, Science, Knowing

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• Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a set of strange rules, a religion that speaks algebra or a magical group of incantations and spells.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  God, Religion, Groups

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• Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.

  Caterina Fake

  Entrepreneur, Effort, Needs

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• That to me was really, certainly, the gateway into discovering John, ... I feel I found the speaking voice through the singing voice.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Voice, Singing, Gateways

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• Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Journey, Limits

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• Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

  Laurence Shames

  Sweet, Giving, Ballet

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• The act of discovering  who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  House, Stories, World

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

  Jules Henry

  Thinking, Deep Thought, Rewards

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• Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who can help in time of need, give inspiration and comfort, and be a source of motivation for needed change

  Richard G. Scott

  Friendship, Change, Bible

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• What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Roots, Different, Next Level

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• Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

  Pierre Boulez

  Musical, Technique, Development

  Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.143, Harvard University Press

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• Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Journey, Stories

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• Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Waiting, Feelings

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• Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with open eyes.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Eye, Doctrine, Tools

  Jane Hirshfield (2015). “Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World”, p.57, Knopf

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