Discovering Quotes - Page 11

• ...I started photographing myself, and found that I could see portions of myself that I had never seen before. Since I face just my face in the mirror, I know pretty much what it's like. When I see a side-view I'm not used to it, and find it peculiar... So, photographing myself and discovering unknown territories of my surface self causes an interesting psychological confrontation.

  Lucas Samaras

  Self, Views, Mirrors

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• I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

  Michelle Obama

  Shapes, Want, Cusp

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  What Matters, Discovery, Life Is

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• We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

  Charles Handy

  School, People, Arena

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• No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

  Stephen Hawking

  Winning, Joy, Research

  "Stephen Hawking's £1.8m physics prize win proves time is money" by Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  Terence McKenna

  Maturity, People, Lasts

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• Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Meaningful, Secret, Knows

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• We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

  Gregory Bateson

  Technology, Today, Way

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.510, University of Chicago Press

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• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  J. G. Ballard

  Rain, Reality, Thinking

  J. G. Ballard (2005). “Conversations”, Re/Search Publications

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• It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.

  Jackie Mason

  Want, Illness, Queries

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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• We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Focus, Effort, Solutions

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Happiness is discovering the prune juice your doctor ordered you to drink has fermented.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Doctors, Juice

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• Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

  Johnny Carson

  Happiness, Blonde, Liquor

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• We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Trying, Pieces

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• I did have a love for literature that overpowered my hatred of the people who taught it, and I think because I had no respect for the teachers, their attitude didn't poison the writing that I was discovering for myself.

  Craig Ferguson

  Teacher, Attitude, Writing

  "American on Purpose". Book by Craig Ferguson, 2009.

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• TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Tvs, Marathon, Keep Going

  Source: collider.com

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• I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.

  Andy Serkis

  Reading, School, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.

  Philip Kitcher

  Progress, Ethics, Problem

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

  Stephanie D'Abruzzo

  School, Rocks, Classic

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

  Sutton Foster

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I think that more and more young people are discovering that gainful employment isn't the only thing in life. That they can perhaps be just as useful to society and themselves by travelling across the land or around the world, learning more about humanity and going through the various experiences which will make their adulthood more productive.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Thinking, Land, Things In Life

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• [Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Simple, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• Movies will continue one way or another. Maybe on video. Even on video games. You have to look at it, if you have children, or if you are linked to children, because it's new for them. This has not disappeared; the look of a child who is discovering the world, whatever it is.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Children, Games, Way

  Source: cinemagodardcinema.wordpress.com

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• When we experience stress, the nervous system tries to control things. Part of waking up is discovering what we are beyond that controlling organism.

  Tara Brach

  Stress, Trying, Wake Up

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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