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“What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.”

Thinking Writing Process Realizing Common Empathy Discovery Exciting Exploration Writing Process

Author:Andre Dubus

“The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in mechanic arts, the discoveries in natural philosophy, navigation and commerce, and the advancement of civilization and humanity, have occasioned changes in the condition of the world and the human character which would have astonished the most refined nations of antiquity. A continuation of similar exertions is everyday rendering Europe more and more like one community, or single family.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I

“The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.”

Made War Together Process Terrible Discovery Technological

Book:The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

Source: The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements

“The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.”

Lines Economy Discovery Gold Absolutes West Congress Conviction East Providing Pacific Surveys Mississippi Railroads

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.”

Source: A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects

“The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.”

Lying Found Discovery Essence Satisfaction Endless Familiar Boredom Theme Subtle Repetition Novelty Variation Richness Obsessive

Book:Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Source: Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.”

Ifs Inspirational Age Childhood Middle Personality Discovery Essence Surprise Developing Intrigue Middle Ages Gateways Exhilaration

Author:Erik Erikson

“One of the most important discoveries I have ever made is this truth: God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.”

Made Important Discovery Satisfaction Satisfied Ministry Pastor Motor

Book:A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

Source: A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life

“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”

“Art keeps its newness because it's at once unforgettable and impossible to remember entirely. Art is too volatile, multiple and evaporative to hold on to. It's more chemical reaction, one you have to re-create each time, than a substance. Art's discoveries are also, almost always, counter to ordinary truths.”

Art Remember Impossible Ordinary Art Is Discovery Reactions Substance Chemicals Multiple Unforgettable Newness Chemical Reactions

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.”

Needs Seems Happens Essentials Findings Sitting Discovery Plant Exploring Harvest Essays Crops Beans Cascade

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.”

People Humans America Human Beings Creative Teaching Taught Capable Discovery Tests Originals Treated Emphasis Cattle Teaching And Learning Memorizing

Author:Kesha Rogers

“I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.”

Way Writing Discovery Resolve Never Quit

Author:Rita Dove

“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”

Life Ends Country Beautiful Lying Mystery Discovery Vacation Savages Beautiful Country Wonder And Mystery

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses

“Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.”

Thinking Interesting Knowing Discovery Fascinating Cheer Very Interesting Primates

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.”

Process Practice Teacher Demand Discovery Disappointment Endless Disappoint

Author:Joko Beck

“I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.”

Believe Doubt Discovery Innovation Fuel Engines Inquiry Skeptic

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.”

Missing Activity Standards Research Discovery Tradition Accounts Impression Usual Novelty Journalistic Flashy Newsworthy

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.”

Doe Discovery Insight Arise Revolutionary Sparkling Discovery In Science

Author:Isaac Asimov

“The simplest questions are the most difficult.”

Difficult Answers Discovery Finding Yourself Simplest Know Yourself Messiah Discovering The World

Author:William S. Burroughs

“Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.”

Values Discovery Valuable Scientific Discovery

Author:John A. McDougall

“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.”

World May Has Beens Political Social Realizing Influence Civilization Discovery Method Distance Profound Wave Educational Hearing Providing Electrical

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.”

Way Mean Motivation Steps Anxiety Married Discovery Optimism Curiosity My Way Steps Forward Intersections Depression And Anxiety

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.”

Art Mass Discovery Productions Formulas Factories Mass Production

Author:Signe Baumane

“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”

Mean Use Fear Enemy Society Discovery Clever State Of Mind Halloween Observing Fear Of Failure Overcoming Fear True Believer Overcoming Failure Hate And Fear

Book:The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.”

Writing Process Possibility Discovery Rewriting

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.”

Knows Writing Trying Happens Jobs Known Communication Discovery Experiments

Author:William Stafford

“The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.”

Giving Order Steps Progress Discovery Unity

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're working it out, be it Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, or the kids in Narnia, they go through this weird journey that's not real, and they're going through this journey psychologically. It's that journey of discovery, of getting onself together, that fantasy and fairy tales are so good at. And while some people still look upon them as completely unrealistic, for me they're more real than most things that are perceived as real.”

People World Feels Mind Looks Stills Real Dream Kids Together Fantasy Journey Like You Discovery Work Out Tales Look Up Fairy Working It Fairy Tale Wizards Narnia Dream World

Author:Tim Burton

“Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.”

Men Firsts Ends Hands Lying Lines Progress Discovery Harmony Fellows Rate Very Good Halls Laboratory

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.”

Men Looks Real Discovery Curious Realising Real Men Moustache Mona Lisa

Book:Marcel Duchamp

Source: Marcel Duchamp

“Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries”

Facts Happens Theory Ought Discovery Clue New Discoveries

Author:John Herschel

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

Discovery Fundamentals Debt Cinema Thieves Bicycle Triumphant Chaplin

Author:Satyajit Ray

“Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.”

Security Discovery Certitude

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

“I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.”

Art Messages Art Is Discovery Fundamentals Seeking Mediums Artistic Impulse

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.”

Feels Writing Long Fiction Information Elements Discovery Gold Nonfiction Writing Fiction

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India.”

Long Discovery Ideals India British Empires Surprising Loyal British Empire

Author:Arthur L. Herman

“The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.”

Writing Firsts Discovery Recognition Abandon

Author:Marvin Bell

“All bowmen are caught between heaven and earth, born to discovery, choosing to love and raise their eyes high to a future that is apparent only through the strength of their hope.”

Eye Earth Heaven Born Discovery Raises Caught Heaven And Earth Choosing To Love

Author:David Paul

“I'm not a big TV watcher, but I know that Discovery is a teaching network. And they've been so awesome to me, I love those people.”

People Knows Bigs Teaching Tvs Discovery Watchers

Author:Paul Brown

“The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.”

“Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity”

Discovery Scientist Curiosity Passionate Naive

Author:Craig Mello

“Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.”

Ifs Writing Joy Process Sound Discovery Strategy Boring Narrative Discovering Outlines

Author:Bob Shacochis

“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.”

Feels Looks I Can Planets Discovery Exploration Discovery In Science

Author:Dimitar Sasselov

“If you want to save the snow leopard, or the giant Redwoods, or the Okavango delta, or the Amazon, or the atmosphere, or the Earth, or those you love, or yourself, or the human race, this is the only path that can achieve that-so the truth is the sooner you support and adopt this path of transformation through understanding the better. The choice is self-destruction or self-discovery.”

“In my old age, I was at last being permitted to make the discovery that lovemaking gets better and better with time, if it's with someone you care for.”

Ifs Care Age Lasts Discovery Old Age Get Better

Book:The front runner

Source: The front runner

“Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?”

Thinking Knows Turns Asks Answers Discovery Finished Inquiry Make You Think You Think You Know

Book:Mary Coin: A Novel

Source: Mary Coin: A Novel

“Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.”

Journey Discovery Insight Destination Business Innovation

Author:Gary Hamel

“New discoveries in science and their flow of new inventions will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.”

Stills Politics Adventure Thousand Travel Discovery Funny Travel Frontiers New Discoveries New Frontiers Discovery In Science

Author:Herbert Hoover

“Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.”

Whole Eye Discovery Disappear Cease New Discoveries

Book:Franz Kafka Vol 2

Source: Franz Kafka Vol 2

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