#disco

It's an interesting thing when you discover something about yourself. To go: 'Wow, I'm not the person I thought I was. I'm in the middle of something and I can't actually deal with it.' ↗

— Keira Knightley

#actually #deal #discover #go #i

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#certainly #deed #did #discover #done

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

#before #believed #bit #discovered #every

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. ↗

— Saadi

#another #argue #discover #ignorance #may

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