Discovering Quotes - Page 9

• Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Ideas, Sometimes, Feels

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• It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

  Friedrich Engels

  Brain, Facts, Interconnection

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “On Religion”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• Buy boots you can walk in. Walk in them. Even if you lessen the income of the General Omnibus Company, or your family doctor; you will discover the human foot. On discovering it, your joy will be as great as if you had invented it. But this joy is the greatest, because no human invention even of Mr. Ford or Mr. Marconi is within a mile of a foot.

  Vincent McNabb

  Doctors, Feet, Joy

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• What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

  Ted Dekker

  Real, What Matters, Two

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• We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

  Lisa Gardner

  Thinking, Together, Needs

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

  Lee Hall

  Writing, Thinking, Dancing

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• I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.

  Rachel Corrie

  Thinking, People, Wish

  "Rachel's war", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Work Out, World, Lines

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.15, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Opportunity, Numbers

  "Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World". Book by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, March 2006.

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• I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, Choices, Kind

  "Jennifer Lawrence". Interview with Jodie Foster, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.

  Chris Hayes

  Basketball, Thinking, Views

  "Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. March 27, 2013.

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• The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

  Susan Stewart

  Loss, Thinking, Voice

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• It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Meaning Of Life, Majority

  "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.

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• An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

  John Dewey

  Fit, Individual, Given

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.93, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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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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• God makes it clear that his image bearers must live in dynamic communion with one another, thereby discovering and celebrating the good gift of one's own gender and that of the other. With a cross-shaped lens, we behold the beauty of man for woman and woman for man. None of us has ever lost that original design. No matter how broken we have become, we have never lost the potential to be good gifts for others!

  Andrew Comiskey

  Men, Broken, Design

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• The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

  Jill Briscoe

  Secret, Given

  Jill Briscoe (2000). “Renewal on the Run: Encouragement for Wives Who Are Partners in Ministry”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Risk, Celebration, Kind

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• I'm discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Chance, Closets

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• I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

  Amos Lee

  Song, Mean, Honest

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• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  Frances O'Grady

  Teenager, Hero, Eye

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• Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Want, Clue, Reason

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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