Pursuit quotes
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The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.
-- Alain Ducasse -
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
-- Alan Bennett -
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.
-- Alan Bennett -
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
-- Alfred Adler -
any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.
-- Alice Kuipers -
One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
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Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
-- Andrew Vachss -
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.
-- Ashwin Sanghi -
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.
-- Ayn Rand -
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.
-- Barry Humphries -
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,
-- Ben Bradlee -
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Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
-- Bernard Membe -
It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.
-- Bill Toomey -
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
-- Bob Brown -
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
-- Bob Ross -
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
-- Brigham Young -
To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.
-- Cecelia Ahern -
My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
-- Charles Saatchi -
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Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit...
-- Chris Rock -
Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.
-- Claudio Silvestrin -
I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning.
-- Conor McGregor -
I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
-- David Antin -
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
-- Denis Waitley -
No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
-- Dillon Burroughs -
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
-- Donald Johanson -
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In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind?
-- Elyse Fitzpatrick -
The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
-- Errol Morris -
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
-- Fanny Burney -
I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
-- Frederick Sanger -
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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong
-- George W. Romney -
When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.
-- Gerry Adams -
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
-- Graydon Carter -
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
-- Harriet Martineau -
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
-- Harriet Martineau -
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.
-- Hayley Mills -
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
-- Henri Nouwen -
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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
-- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux -
Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.
-- Henry Fuseli -
As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.
-- Horace -
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness...
-- Hugh Jackman -
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The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ.
-- Jack Hyles -
It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.
-- Jack White -
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
-- James Payn -
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
-- Jean de la Bruyere -
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There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.
-- Jean Giono -
We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.
-- Jim Butcher -
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
-- John Buchan -
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The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
-- John Carroll -
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.
-- John Herschel -
By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life.
-- John Ross -
I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.
-- Jonny Wilkinson -
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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.
-- Joseph Heller -
I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.
-- Kevin Youkilis -
Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.
-- Lauren Kate -
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
-- Laurence Sterne -
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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can
-- Loretta Swit -
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
-- Martin Van Buren -
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
-- Matthew Arnold -
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
-- Miroslav Volf -
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Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
-- Ovid -
Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
-- P. T. Barnum -
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
-- Patti Smith -
Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.
-- Pete Carroll -
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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
-- Peter Kreeft -
Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision
-- Peter Senge -
Love is the pursuit of the whole.
-- Plato -
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.
-- R. C. Sproul -
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I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,
-- Rana Dasgupta -
A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.
-- Richard Armitage -
The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.
-- Richard Koch -
I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
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Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion.
-- Robert Greene -
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.
-- Ruskin Bond -
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
-- Samuel Richardson -
The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,
-- Sarah Lewis -
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Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.
-- Sean Covey -
Be Brave in the pursuit of beauty
-- Shu Uemura -
Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.
-- Simon Sinek -
Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.
-- Simon Sinek -
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Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
-- Siri Hustvedt -
The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.
-- Ta-Nehisi Coates -
There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?
-- Ted Dekker -
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
-- Terry Brooks -
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
-- Terry Eagleton -
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
-- Tom Brokaw -
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.
-- Tom Rath -
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Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person
-- Tony Robbins -
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.
-- Wilhelm von Humboldt -
As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
-- Will Eisner -
