Best 278 quotes in «pursuit quotes» category

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.

You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits.

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

A true romantic will break the rules for the right reasons. He will not conform to the ideals bestowed upon him by society. Instead he will fight for a climate of freedom that allows him to pursue and obtain his heart's true yearning. He will appear incorrect in his upright form, but such perception only through the eyes of those travelling under the hypnotic notion of social paradigms. Do not judge he who is breaking the rules, rather try to understand his motivations. If his intent is pure then his fight is not in vain.

Awake my great soul. Awake my great spirit. Awake my great strength.

To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

Acting, like love, is a lonely pursuit.

...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact.

After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.

Begin to pursue your dream.

Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.

Be fearless in the pursuit of your dreams!

Begin to pursue your dreams.

Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams.

Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.

Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.

Children at play, birds of prey," Lucien said, closing out his register, "and dogs may chase anything that moves. But in general, we are not pursued because we run; we run because we are pursued. Someone wanted something from this girl --love, money, her body, her mind. Find out what pursued your friend, and you find your friend.

Confidence comes from relentless pursuit of perfection.

Creativity often leads to a solo pursuit of a dream until you find like-minded people who get it. Who get you.

Do all the work you while you still have strength.

Designing posters, for me, is not only a commercial pursuit but also a philosophical endeavor.

A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full of yellow jonquils, pale violets from the Riviera, dark Russian violets, and white Roman hyacinths in a golden cloud of mimosa. The street was full of Sunday pleasure-seekers. I swung my cane and laughed with the rest. Someone overtook and passed me. He never turned, but there was the same deadly malignity in his white profile that there had been in his eyes. I watched him as long as I could see him. His lithe back expressed the same menace; every step that carried him away from me seemed to bear him on some errand connected with my destruction. I was creeping along, my feet almost refusing to move. There began to dawn in me a sense of responsibility for something long forgotten. It began to seem as if I deserved that which he threatened: it reached a long way back - a long, long way back. It had lain dormant all these. years: it was there though, and presently it would rise and confront me. But I would try to escape; and I stumbled as best I could into the rue de Rivioli, across the Place de la Concorde and on to the Quai. I looked with sick eyes upon the sun, shining through the white foam of the fountain, pouring over the backs of the dusky bronze river-gods, on the far-away Arc, a structure of amethyst mist, on the countless vistas of grey stems and bare branches faintly green. Then I saw him again coming down one of the chestnut alleys of the Cours la Reine. ("In The Court of the Dragon")

Do not pursue a life that looks good. Pursue a life that is good.

Don't come back till you have him!" the Ticktockman said, very quietly, very sincerely, extremely dangerously. They used dogs. They used probes. They used cardioplate crossoffs. They used teepers. They used bribery. They used stiktytes. They used intimidation. They used torment. They used torture. They used finks. They used cops. They used search&seizure. They used fallaron. They used betterment incentive. They used fingerprints. They used the Bertillon system. They used cunning. They used guile. They used treachery. They used Raoul Mitgong, but he didn't help much. They used applied physics. They used techniques of criminology. And what the hell: they caught him.

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.

For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored