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The best thing is the discovery of the character as...

The best thing is the discovery of the character as performed. That's the best part of the work. It's how it comes off the page.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about character, work, things

I had my moments for sure but I wasn't confrontational. And sometimes you get on the court and you'd find yourself very confrontational. It was all a discovery.

Quote by Andre Agassi

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something...

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Quote by Frank Herbert about beginning, knowledge

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are...

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce about error, genius, man

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce about human imperfections, error, man

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Quote by James Joyce

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, world, time

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about revelation, lie

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can...

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about attitude, future, change, people, time

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Quote by Samuel Smiles about opinion, mistake, failure, wisdom

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it...

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Quote by Daniel J. Boorstin about revelation, obstacles, ignorance, knowledge

In the 1960s, I continued the work on the secretory process using in parallel or in succession two different approaches. The first relied exclusively on cell fractionation, and was developed in collaboration with Philip Siekevitz, Lewis Greene,...

Quote by George Emil Palade about medicine, univers, research, animals, work, good, good luck

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking...

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Quote by Marcel Proust about knowledge, eyes, real estate

We live in a world where the latest discovery is the man.

We live in a world where the latest discovery is the man.

Quote by Marius Torok about man, world

Books are tools for self-discovery, and everyone needs them.

Quote by Zenta Maurina about tools, books, self-control

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