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• While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Pain, Writing

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Writing, Composition, Series

  E. L. Doctorow, Christopher D. Morris (1999). “Conversations with E.L. Doctorow”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

  William Targ

  Writing, Editors, Juan

  William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. wThe sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy.w Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence.

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

  Time, Truth, Taken

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• Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

  Garrison Keillor

  Mistake, Writing, Mean

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• It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Teaching, Mean, Math

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• The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

  Joseph Fourier

  Teaching, Math, Profound

  Joseph Fourier (2007). “The Analytical Theory of Heat (Unabridged)”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe that, through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Believe, World

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Memories, Eye

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• I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Taken, Expression

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• I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Ideas, Glasses

  Edward Weston, Peter C. Bunnell (1983). “Edward Weston on photography”, Gibbs Smith Publishers

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• More and more are turning to photography as a medium of expression as well as communication. The leavening of aesthetic approaches continues. While it is too soon to define the characteristic of the photographic style today, one common denominator, rooted in tradition, seems in the ascendancy. The direct use of the camera for what it can do best, and that is the revelation, interpretation, and discovery of the world of man and of nature. The greatest challenge to the photographer is to express the inner significance through the outward form.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, Communication, Men

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• The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established between the artist and his creation. While it may be true, as Nathan Lyons stated, 'The eye and the camera see more than the mind knows,' is it not also conceivable that the mind knows more than the eye and the camera can see?

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Photography, Eye, Artist

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• . . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Art, Confusion

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• The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.

  Seymour Papert

  Teaching, Benefits, Following Your Own Path

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• The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Joy, May

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.382, Princeton University Press

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Peace, Choices, Decision

  "Years of the Modern". Book by by J.W. Chase, 1949.

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• Sometime in the last ten years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment. This discovery has been forced on us by the realization that we are approaching the limits of something.

  Gary Snyder

  Years, Brain, Lasts

  Gary Snyder (1995). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds : New and Selected Prose”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Self, Competition, Use

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• Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

  Murray Rothbard

  Money, Oil, Shoes

  "Making Economic Sense". Book by Murray Rothbard (p. 274), 1995.

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• The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Would Be, Opinion

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.59

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• The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Research And Development, America

  Barack Obama's speech on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

  James H. Billington

  Reading, Adventure, Library

  James H. Billington (1988). “Books and the world”

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• Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Science, Law, Principles

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• When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

  W. Edwards Deming

  Thinking, Events, Helpful

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