Pursue Quotes - Page 27

• While I love film and want to continue to pursue it 100 percent, my home is TV.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Home, Want, Tvs

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• A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

  Gillian Jacobs

  School, College, Thinking

  "Gillian Jacobs’ Community Values". Interview with Jamie Lincoln, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 2, 2014.

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• We pursue that which retreats from us.

  Bill Vaughan

  Desire, Retreat

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• After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, "Thats fine. We support you, but you have to go to school", which was fine because I'm a studious person anyway, I enjoy it.

  Josie Loren

  Dream, Moving, School

  "Exclusive Interview: MIOBI's Josie Loren". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2011.

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• When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldnt be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to LA and continue to pursue the acting thing.

  Dan Byrd

  School, Parent, Acting

  "Dan Byrd’s Norman Invasion". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Enjoy, Evolve

  "Eric Idle At Whitman College Commencement Jokes About Guns, Declares Irony Dead" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it

  Lindsey Shaw

  Psychology, Leaving, Able

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• I was working in customer service and had a verbally abusive boss. One day, I decided to quit and pursue my acting passion with everything I had. One week after quitting, I booked One Life to Live.

  Tika Sumpter

  Passion, Boss, One Day

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• My life may be much happier to-morrowHunger and love that press against the body,The two eternal needs we recognise,Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,May get me down or raise me to the skiesAnd make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.

  Gavin Ewart

  Two, Desire, And Love

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• I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Mom, Jobs, Independent

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• Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

  Shimon Peres

  Disappointment, Leader, Doubt

  Presidential Medal of Freedom Acceptance Address, delivered 13 June 2012, White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hero, Support, Technique

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• Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.

  Bill Shorten

  People, Cost, Outcomes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one wants to pursue anything creative anymore, because that's too risky. They may not get the kind of return on the financial investment they've made in their education that they think they should.

  Meg Cabot

  Thinking, Creative, May

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• I've never been a passive person. I've always felt that, if you think something should be changed, it's your responsibility to actively pursue that change.

  Bob Filner

  Responsibility, Thinking, Should

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• I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you cant do it.

  Brian Selznick

  Thinking, Drawing, Important

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• Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Issues, Political

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• We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Compassion, Tolerance

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• Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.

  Tim Walberg

  Dream, Hard Work, Government

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• Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hate, Men, Cake

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• Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Selfish, Ambition, Purpose

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.27, Multnomah

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• Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

  George Herbert

  Enemy, Victory, May

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• Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Agreement, Together, Way

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• Which always raises the interesting question of whether redheads pursue other redheads in a narcissistic way, or simply, because they have no other choice, as nonredheads aren't interested.

  Emily Giffin

  Interesting, Choices, Narcissistic

  Emily Giffin (2015). “Borrowed & Blue: Something Borrowed, Something Blue”, p.606, St. Martin's Griffin

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• God wants a love partner, centering on the place where husband and wife become one through their sexual organs, God wants to appear and meet us...I wish you would center on the absolute sexual organ, unique sexual organ, unchanging sexual organ and eternal sexual organ and use this as your foundation to pursue God...We have to realize that the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven will begin on this foundation.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Husband, Unique, Wife

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