Discovering Quotes
489 Discovering quotes by 416 unique authors
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Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.
— Larry Ellison
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Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of…
— Laurence Shames
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The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country,…
— Danny Wallace
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I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole…
— Bede Griffiths
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The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
— Paulo Coelho
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A story is not like a road to followit's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and…
— Alice Munro
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To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the…
— Jules Henry
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Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who…
— Richard G. Scott
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What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including…
— Jean Piaget
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Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as…
— Pierre Boulez
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Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming…
— Henri Nouwen
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Zen is less the study of doctrine than a set of tools for discovering what can be known when the world is looked at with…
— Jane Hirshfield
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to…
— Alexander Fleming
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Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you…
— E F Schumacher
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.
— Brad Warner
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The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this…
— Ken Robinson
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The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in…
— Ken Robinson
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's…
— Rick Warren
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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what…
— Leon Edel
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You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust…
— Michael Swanwick
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People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you…
— Reid Hoffman
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We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power…
— Thomas Berry
Who Wrote These Discovering Quotes
416 authors contributed a total of 489 Discovering Quotes, led by these top contributors: