Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

Robertson Davies

Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?

Winston Smith

False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Twyla Tharp

You don't get into the mood to create – it's discipline.

William Golding

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

William Feather

Control from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak.

William Least Heat-Moon

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

Wilhelm Reich

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.

Vladimir Putin

A foreign threat is useful to put things in order in one's own camp, to make one's allies follow the bloc discipline. Iran does not fit this role too well, and it is very tempting to revive Russia's image of the enemy. But nobody in Europe is afraid anymore.

William Kingdon Clifford

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture — that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

Winston Churchill

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

Rick Yancey

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!

William Hague

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

William Eggleston

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

Wendell Phillips

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Wendell Berry

Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists. To know anything at all becomes a moral predicament. Aware that there is no such thing as a specialized effect, one becomes responsible for judgments as well as facts. Aware that as an agricultural scientist he had 'one great subject,' Sir Albert Howard could no longer ask, What can I do with what I know? without at the same time asking, How can I be responsible for what I know?

Yahya Jammeh

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

Wynton Marsalis

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Yehudi Menuhin

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

Zig Ziglar

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

Steve Forbert

Rodgers was incredibly heroic, ... I wanted people to discover his music and also to know more about him.

Retailers are really getting squeezed especially in the largest retail sector, which is the supermarket sector. In the discount sector, Sears and Kmart would be at significant risk.

Jakaya Kikwete

People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go.

Our policy is not to discuss ongoing legal proceedings.

Our leadership is considering it but we have to discuss many practical things with the Norwegians.

Viktor Yushchenko

Our memory must become a warning for those who want to sow discord in our multiethnic family,

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

In that interview we will discuss the applicant's background, what they used to do, what they like to do, and what is available. They may want to do something entirely different from what they had done in the past.

Seth Numrich

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Mario Van Peebles

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

Sachin Tendulkar

I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.