Pursue Quotes - Page 28

• Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Religious, Home, Order

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• When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

  Bruce Schneier

  Dream, Jobs, Stupid

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• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

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• One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.

  Jay Leno

  People, Goal, Dyslexic

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• The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Government, Apples, Google

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• It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

  Samuel Smiles

  Dream, Courage, Strong

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• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, Order

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• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Reading, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Excess, Driven

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• Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade;
  When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
  So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues,
  But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

  Ovid

  Clouds, Shadow, Rays

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• Most people didn't pursue their passions simply because of the promise of a paycheck. They pursued them because they couldn't imagine doing anything else with their lives.

  Ken Robinson

  Life, Motivational, Money

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.22, Penguin

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• Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• In order to be able to make and keep commitments... to enduring, intimate relationships... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it.

  Danny Silk

  Powerful, Commitment, Responsibility

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• We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Giving Up, Inquiry, Branches

  "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 9), 1902.

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• Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Race

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Dream, Kids, Impossible

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

  Julie Delpy

  Jobs, Mean, Directors

  "Julie Delpy Talks 2 DAYS IN NEW YORK, Casting Chris Rock, Her Writing Process, Her Comedic Influences and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

  Colleen Houck

  Girl, Men, Want

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• Everyone is looking for the quick fix, but what they really need is fitness. People who look for fixes stop doing what's right when pressure is relieved. People who pursue fitness do what they should do no matter what the circumstances are.

  Kevin Myers

  People, Pressure, Needs

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• What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

  Nita Ambani

  Passion, Important, Legacy

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• I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.

  Mason Cooley

  Pleasure

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• There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing - it is time to pursue our goals, take risks, get things accomplished. At other times, our energy is quiet and sensitive, and we need to take time to nurture ourselves, relax, and just 'be' for a while. As we trust and follow this rhythm, we attract everything we need and create everything we truly desire.

  Shakti Gawain

  Strong, Goal, Risk

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• So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.

  Paul the Apostle

  Peace

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