Discovering Quotes - Page 20

• Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.

  Karen Kingston

  Want, Aids, Clutter

  Karen Kingston (2015). “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui”, p.33, Harmony

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• Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

  Bob Shacochis

  Writing, Discovery, Joy

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• [Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

  Peter Tait

  Book, Men, Pay

  "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.

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• We have to stop delivering the curriculum to kids. We have to start discovering it with them.

  Will Richardson

  Kids, Curriculum, Delivering

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• Discover the great ideas that lie inside you by discovering the power of sleep.

  Arianna Huffington

  Lying, Sleep, Ideas

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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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• It was beguiling to live in a country, Scotland, that didn't look enough like itself to be a location for its own movies... I remember consulting a film book and discovering that Arthur Freed decided to shoot Brigadoon in Hollywood because nowhere in Scotland looked Scottish enough.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Country, Book, Scotland

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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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• You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Discovering The Truth, Inventing

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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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• I am always learning, always discovering.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Always Learning

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• 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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• The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Beautiful, Time, Nature

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

  Brandy Norwood

  One Day, Want, Comedy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• 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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• 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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