A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

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

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes

As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
Tom Wopat

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape.
Gary Burton

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals.
Simon Wiesenthal

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
Bede Griffiths

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.
Mathias Rust

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
Victor Garber

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
J. B. Priestley

I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.
Billy Sheehan

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
Shelby Foote

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.
Mia Kirshner

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
Joan D. Vinge

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
Helen Gahagan