Finding

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.

Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

It's always more interesting to take on someone that's going to have hidden sides or a fatal flaw, because there's going to be more to play with - more conflict, internally or in and around them - but it's probably the thing of finding the positive in there.

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

I've been very lucky in everything, really - in my career and in finding someone to share my life with, and in not dying.

'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know that you could really understand exactly what parents and kids are seeing in it, but they can see a lot of different stuff.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Sharon Shinn is a lover of words and a builder of worlds. She makes science-fiction seem like fantasy. Her characters jump off the page, finding their way under your skin and into your heart.

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so mechanical now. It's all so if-you-liked-this-then-you'll-like-this. There's no picking something out, or finding some brilliant person to open up new worlds for you.

Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date, you have to find who is right for you.

The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.

I think it's a false distinction to say that conversation and composition are separate. Because even as we speak, I'm seeing. Every interview is different, and I'm finding new ways to talk about ancient preoccupations. And I sometimes come on something that's immensely helpful and valuable. Plus I like the sensation of conversation.

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special.

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at the center of our galaxy. And the reason this is interesting is that it gives us an opportunity to prove whether or not these exotic objects really exist.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

Performance capture, for me, is finding the essence of a performance.

I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.

I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.

I loved math. I was such a nerd! I really enjoyed working through problems and finding the solution.

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew.

Finding pleasure in revision is the thing I would most strongly advise to people. It's not something I did as a younger writer, I learned it over time.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'Finding Fanny.'

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

My main concern when travelling around the world is finding a place to skateboard!

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach.

People all over are finding themselves in jobs they never thought they'd be in.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people, I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

One of the big secrets of finding time is not to watch television.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.

I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

You can't learn to take a punch. Whether you have a glass chin or you don't, the only way of finding out is having it land.

I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.

I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.

As coaches say, it's about finding your role. We're coming together as a team.

Chance leads to discoveries, and mutagenesis is a way to enhance one's chances of finding a surprise. Often it is the exceptional observations that lead to advances, once you understand exceptions, you understand the whole picture.

But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

I do not know a lot about football. I guess I'm a Patriots fan because I'm from Boston? But I'm getting to know a lot more about it, and I'm finding it fascinating.

I have a really hard time finding good denim.

I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.

I think if you're going to wear a red lip, you don't want it wearing you, so it's about finding the right colour.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

Since I was 12 or 13, I have been taking movie meetings finding a project right for me because I wanted to try it. Craig gave us the script - it was set in Wales, it is really British humour. I just loved it.

The sport is about finding the horses. But to find another Valegro is impossible.

I'm really interested in finding good tips to stay in shape, and I love being in the gym, and I love doing yoga.

Finding the right person can be so hard that often, when a person finally finds someone she or he is comfortable with, she or he just makes it work.

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of shaving, though, is not fun. I like beards and the ease of them.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring.

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

That's why I named my album 'Finding Forever,' because that's what I was thinking about: What did I want to contribute to this world that would live beyond my physical existence?

Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.

When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.

If you think in terms of major losses, because losses loom much larger than gains - that's a very well-established finding - you tend to be very risk-averse. When you think in terms of wealth, you tend to be much less risk-averse.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

Signature film-making seems rather dull to me, it's about finding something you can do something with and running with the ball.

The formulation of sound national policy requires finding the right overarching concepts.

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

There's different ways of getting into character. There's what's called 'the outside,' in which is finding the physicality of the character first. To give an example, in 'Gettin' Square' - Johnny Spitieri - that's how I found that character. I knew those people that I'd seen up at Kings Cross. I knew how they sounded.

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from a biological supply house. It's a unique discovery, a unique specimen.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

In my lab, we're finding that psychological stress actually ages cells, which can be seen when you measure the wearing down of the tips of the chromosomes, those telomeres.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

I'm a little disappointed in myself because before getting pregnant, I resolved to do all these things during my pregnancy to nurse a healthy pregnancy. And so I'm finding in these final weeks that I didn't do any of them.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

I don't like precious things, I don't spend thousands of dollars on jewellery for myself. I like going into a junk store and finding something for five dollars. That's my style.

I'm finding writing very fascinating.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Holiday hiring is only useful if you get the right people, and the consensus among HR professionals is that the most consistent and efficient means of finding good people is to use word of mouth. Namely, this is because focusing on referrals means that only people who are already within your network will apply.

Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?

I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.

I love finding EPs for bands that you just discover.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

Utah has benefited from setting smart tax policy. That said, public finding is dynamic enough that we cannot just set the tax policy and presume that it does not require continual review and adjustment.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

I love finding balance. My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

Gosh, I love saying 'Booyakasha!' I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying 'Booyakasha.'

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

I love finding - or inventing - ways to categorize people.

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

Seeking means: to have a goal, but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'

The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passed beyond 49, so probably, I am no longer a desirable commodity for TV. And I am at peace with that, that's fine.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

I want to keep an element of myself in every character I play. And maybe that's connected to finding something that you like in every character. Maybe they coincide.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

I've found that nurturing untapped potential is far more exhilarating than finding someone who has already peaked.

When you get right down to it, there's something uniquely satisfying in being gripped by a great plot, in begrudging whatever real-world obligations might prevent you from finding out what happens next.

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

I don't wear strappy tops. Everyone feels self-conscious about something on their body. It's just finding a style that works for you, and I don't really suit strappy tops or dresses, so I avoid them.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

The first few weeks of joining Weight Watchers, you're just finding your feet.

You know, I have a really tough time finding new bands.

Finding a writer who can write decent kids' dialog and finding kids that can act realistically and not 'cute' is an effort.