Pursuit Quotes - Page 14

• In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passionate, Objects, Pursued

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.

  Philip James Bailey

  War, Greatness, Air

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

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Relentless, Relentless Pursuit

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

  Beryl Markham

  Work, Dignity, Achieve

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.308, Open Road Media

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• The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Ideas, Goal

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Practice, Degrees

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

  Will Eisner

  Excellence, Pursuit Of Excellence

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• Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

  Bob Ross

  Long, Talent, Interest

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• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cake

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• The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Landscape, Wonder

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• We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

  Joseph Muscat

  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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• Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Men, Perfect

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• If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Frustration, Challenges

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• I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Art, Mean

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• I'm obsessed with textures. We're surrounded by so much vinyl that I find myself constantly in pursuit of other textures. One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Hair, Texture

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• Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Sports, War, Class

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• Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Women, Sisterhood

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Garden

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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• The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

  Ricky Gervais

  Emotional, Thinking, Intellectual

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

  Cass Gilbert

  New York, Ambition, Opportunity

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• In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Availability, Demand, Firsts

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.229, Thomas Nelson Inc

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