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61 " To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them." To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them." — Picabo Street "
62 " The reader tries to uncover the skeleton that the book conceals. The author starts with the skeleton and tries to cover it up. His aim is to conceal the skeleton artistically or, in other words, to put flesh on the bare bones. If he is a good writer, he does not bury a puny skeleton under a mass of fat; on the other hand, neither should the flesh be too thin, so that the bones show through. If the flesh is thick enough, and if the flabbiness is avoided, the joints will be detectable and the motion of the parts will reveal the articulation. "
― Mortimer J. Adler , How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
63 " When we prefer to believe something, we may approach the relevant evidence by asking ourselves," what evidence is there to support this belief?" ...Note that this question is not unbiased: It directs our attention to supportive evidence and away from information that might contradict the desired conclusion. Because it is almost always possible to uncover some supportive evidence, the asymmetrical way we frame the question makes us overly likely to become convinced of what we hope to be true. "
64 " Once I accepted my own transexuality, then it became obvious to me that the question " Why do transsexuals exist?" is not a matter of pure curiosity, but rather an act of nonacceptance, as it invariably occurs in the absence of asking the reciprocal question: " Why do cissexuals exist?" The unceasing search to uncover the cause of transexuality is designed to keep transsexual gender identities in a perpetually questionable state, thereby ensuring that cissexual gender identities continue to be unquestionable. "
65 " All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction. "
― , Facing Shame: Families in Recovery
66 " It was youWho opened meLooked into my soulTo study meYou revealed youTo uncover me. "
67 " Unhappy people often insist on trying to uncover the full magnitude of their unhappiness, or choose to investigate other people's lives as a distraction from their own. "
― Javier Marías , To Begin at the Beginning
68 " Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casual "
69 " Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy they will headline that tragedy. "
70 " Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined. "
71 " God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. "
72 " Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. "
73 " We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people. "
74 " A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. "
75 " The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry I think I uncover the problems. "
