Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Gunn

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Thomas Szasz

The great shift ... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of ... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the "sciences." This attempt to escape from, or to deny, valuation is ... especially important in psychology ... and the so-called social sciences. Indeed, one could go so far as to say that the specialized languages of these disciplines serve virtually no other purpose than to conceal valuation behind an ostensibly scientific and therefore nonvaluational semantic screen.

Satyajit Ray

Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Lara Stone

If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be.

Tertullian

Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Tertullian

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Terry Pratchett

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

Terry Pratchett

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

Terry Pratchett

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

Terry Pratchett

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Terry Pratchett

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Shannyn Sossamon

Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.

Lewis Mumford

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Peter Tork

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Peter Gabriel

I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

Phil Crosby

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

Rabindranath Tagore

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Joss Whedon

A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend

Kevin Keegan

Discipline is not only very important, it's crucial.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Hector Hugh Munro

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Marcel Proust

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.

Jonathan Winters

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.