Discovering Quotes

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

One of the most important lessons of childhood is discovering what you like to do.

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

All my life I have been hearing that the oil was going to run out. It never happens. They keep discovering new oil fields. The world is apparently floating in oil fields.

Most people like to think they are discovering a new talent. If you ask, then it makes them feel as though they are being used. Allow them to discover you.

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.

There isn't, unfortunately, any way of discovering whether you can write a publishable novel except by writing it.

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.

When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

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

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Discovering, for example, that as witnesses to your life diminish, there is less corroboration, and therefore less certainty, as to what you are or have been. [p. 65]

And that's how we ended up discovering the evil horses that threatened all of humanity.

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

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

The key to success is discovering your innate power and using it daily.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

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.

Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

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.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering.

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.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

One of the exhilarating parts of falling in love is discovering new things about one another, and seeing the world from a different point of view.

Retiring and discovering that you no longer have enough energy to enjoy life and dying a few years out of sheer boredom.

All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.

[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'.

With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

Every instrument that has been designed to be sensitive enough to detect weak light has always ended up discovering that the same thing: light is made of particles.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Research is a scientific activity dedicated to discovering what makes grass green.

I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

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

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

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