I didn’t even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don’t discover decathlon until they’re 21 or 22.
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
Technologies like Ayasdi’s exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.
My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.
You have to discover when you’re inadequate to be funny and you don’t know you’re inadequate when you’re a kid.
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
My dream is to build a tech company that helps people discover content.
When you’ve opened your heart to a child as you have to, there’s always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration – you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.
Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich… new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it’s mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.
Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
I spend so long writing each of my novels that by the time I’m done with one, I’m ready to discover a totally different world.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one’s own identity.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?
The period of time just before you awaken is the time I have my most creative thoughts and discover the best solutions.
I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
It’s more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there’s nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.
To be a straight person and discover you’re infertile is almost like discovering you’re not a straight person.
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
I’m in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it’s with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it’s to stay awake, either way it’s much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.
Once an ebook hits the Kindle Top 100, sales tend to snowball as new customers discover it in greater numbers.
Startups have finite time and resources to find product/market fit before they run out of money. Therefore startups trade off certainty for speed, adopting ‘good enough decision making’ and iterating and pivoting as they fail, learn, and discover their business model.
Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.
We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.
I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.
Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you’re suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!
We need to live our truth. We need to discover ourselves. And no matter how much you prepare for everything, life will always find a way to surprise you.
It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May.
I didn’t really discover ‘Risky Business’ until later in life because I was so young when it came out.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.
I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I’d spend the rest of my time building.
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. One, I rarely have anything to say. It’s much more interesting for me to discover some meaning that you didn’t know that you could create.
I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can’t control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.
Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids.
If every gay person were to come out only to his/her own family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers, within days the entire state would discover that we are not the stereotypes generally assumed.
Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.
Often, investors will discover a manager after he’s had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
And I’m always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
Usually, I don’t feel comfortable with a character until I’ve played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call ‘all the nooks and crannies’ of the person.
National service coupled with education awards, such as AmeriCorps programs or Teach For America, can help young people gain skills and contribute to society without accumulating excessive debt. It gives them a means to develop job skills and discover career paths.
Mulan represents honour and bravery, but, for me, it’s also that she’s willing to discover herself and willing to go forward. I think that’s important to audiences too. Not many people would be willing to do that in the first place.
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.
