#disco

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#creative #discover #greatest #necessities #solitude

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief. ↗

— George Saunders

#definition #discovered #hasn #me #novel

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated. ↗

— Adam Savage

#boards #crew #discovery #going #ideas

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. ↗

— Dan Savage

#arms #choir #discourse #does #elevates

To be a straight person and discover you're infertile is almost like discovering you're not a straight person. ↗

— Dan Savage

#discover #discovering #like #person #straight

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#philosophy #poetry #religion #seek #speak

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#back #bring #discover #enrichment #give

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#advance #because #between #call #cannot