#disco

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. ↗

— Sally Field

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We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#been #discovered #hadn #half #how

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

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The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats. ↗

— John Cleese

#discovering #exciting #got #greats #growing

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#consciously #create #did #discoverer #discovery

I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is. ↗

— Chuck Close

#about #discovered #dots #fewer #give

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#animate #discouraged #elaborate #grace #invites

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#because #been #both #discovered #incredibly

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. ↗

— Sean Connery

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Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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