#disco

The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

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Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

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If there is passion, let me feel its heat. I want my heart to beat fast, my breath raspy, my skin to burn. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#beauty #discovery #love #lust #passion

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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