Findings Quotes - Page 4

• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Halloween, Writing, Scare

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• A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

  Matthew Lesko

  Knowing, Looks, Resources

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• Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

  Carlo Collodi

  Father, Night, Long

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

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• After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

  Joy Page

  Grief, Finding The One, Strange

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• The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Research, Labs

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• Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

  David Sanborn

  Knowing, Leave Me Alone, Quests

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• There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Natalie Portman - Cluttered and Loving It". Interview with Ted Demme and Ingrid Sischy, www.oocities.org. March 1996.

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• Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.

  Leonard Orr

  Law, Mind, About Yourself

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• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Wisdom, Believe, Intellectual

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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• Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Beautiful, Creativity

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• With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

  Colin Greenwood

  People, Want, Radiohead

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

  Mike Watt

  Voice, Inner Voice

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• You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

  Arundhati Roy

  Running, Risk, Quiet

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody.

  Jeff Garcia

  Opportunity, Way, Individual

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• Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

  Tom Clancy

  War, Fighting, Winning

  "Vonnegut and Clancy on Technology". Interview with Sarah Schafer, www.inc.com. December 15, 1995.

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• The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Truth, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.246, Shambhala Publications

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  Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

  Groucho Marx

  Art, Freedom, Political Will

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• Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

  Bill Hybels

  Leadership, People, Creative

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.47, InterVarsity Press

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• I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

  Dirk Benedict

  Serenity, Quiet, Lifetime

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• Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

  Bill Condon

  Thinking, Finding The One, Way

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• It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself

  Jason Behr

  Home, Finding Yourself

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• It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Healing, Journey, Life Journey

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Positive, Philosophical, Fault Finding

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1945). “Hegel's Philosophy of right”

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