Discovering Quotes

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

Life is good for only two things, discovering mathematics and teaching mathematics.

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.

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

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.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

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

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.