Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lithgow

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Jimmy Buffett

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Jim Rohn

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Jim Rohn

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

Jim Rohn

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Jim Rohn

One discipline always leads to another discipline.

Jim Rohn

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

George Lucas

One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

Emanuel Steward

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.

Joan Crawford

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

Joan Collins

Every time an article is written about me or any of my contemporaries who's had the fortune and discipline to look good at a certain age, I am struck by the tone of astonishment, and the certainty that something is being done secretively to beat the devil.

Jimmy Nail

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

Jimmy Iovine

If this company is about anything, it's about discipline and staying focused.

T. S. Eliot

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

Sydney Brenner

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

Sylvester Stallone

I want to turn my attention to movies about love relationships. Exploring the female psyche - there ought to be some interesting discoveries there. Love stories. If you do it right, people want to hear romantic dialog.

Susan Sontag

A lot of what I've written in criticism of my lust for virtue - my discovery that I've committed idolatry, making of the good an idol - is open to the charge of being still caught within the dialectic of idolatry. I've made a moral criticism of my moral consciousness. Meta-idolatry.

Rashida Jones

You can never stop discovering music.

Thomas Jefferson

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Robert Hilburn

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

Robert Henri

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

Trevor McDonald

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Vera Farmiga

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Richard Paul Evans

Everyone has some inner power that awaits discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

Richard P. Feynman

We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

Richard P. Feynman

From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.

Richard P. Feynman

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But experimenters search most diligently, and with the greatest effort, in exactly those places where it seems most likely that we can prove our theories wrong. In other words, we are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.

Richard Whately

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.

Richard Bach

One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.