#disco

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#confused #constituted #delicate #discouraged #distinctions

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

#anxiety #been #discover #get #long

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past. ↗

— Ruth J. Simmons

#campus #committee #community #designed #discovery

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. ↗

— Diogenes

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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth. ↗

— Ann Druyan

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I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#constantly #discovered #encounter #feel #feeling

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. ↗

— Charles Eames

#always #cheap #communicating #discoveries #ideas

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#bit #could #discovered #get #heard