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• I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Growth, Not Sure

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• You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, Technique

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• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

  Robert Breault

  Goal, Effort, Gains

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• The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

  Paul G. Stoltz

  People, Mountain, Purpose

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• If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.

  Eda LeShan

  Years, Long, Needs

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• Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

  Norman Angell

  Desire, Impossible, Making Peace

  Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”

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• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

  Rick Bass

  Would Be, Want, Waste

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• Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

  Patti Smith

  Unanswered Questions, Path, Twisted

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

  Chris Noth

  Jobs, Son, Creative

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• It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.

  Jason Newsted

  Song, Art, Writing

  "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.

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• I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Dream, Children, Creating

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by abrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Grandmother, Waiting

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Husband, Hands, Wife

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• For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

  Christoph Waltz

  Singing, Acting, Opera

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• What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.

  Leon Wieseltier

  Commitment, What Matters, Obsession

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• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Sometimes

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• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Heart, Fate

  Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A #‎ yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Teaching, Writing, Self

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• It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Finals, Intellect

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Stronger, Strategy

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

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• It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Happiness, Mistake, Would Be

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• The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Science, May

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

  Sun Tzu

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.126, Adams Media

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• Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

  Ernst Mach

  Powerful, Support, Development

  Ernst Mach (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”

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