#disco

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more. ↗

— Katharine McPhee

#am #bring #cause #charitable #charity

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#discomfort #expanded #most #often #through

Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#go #go for it #happening #know #life

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#arguing #art #arts #conversely #discoveries

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#character #different #discovering #experience #expressing

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arts #discovered #error #exposed #life

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#could #day #discover #double #harmony

We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#atomic #between #discovery #elements #example

One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#creates #discomfort #entire #facing #fundamental