Pursuit Quotes - Page 22

• Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

  Abraham J. Twerski

  Men, Desire, Purpose

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• I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Reality, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. February 20, 2009.

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• To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

  Ameen Rihani

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Views, Appreciate

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• In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Humanity, Over You

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• Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

  Milton Friedman

  Running, Responsibility, Views

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• You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.

  Loren Bouchard

  Real, Believe, Drawing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Men, Excellence, Vocation

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• A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Heart, Transformation, Physics

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• Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills.

  Francois Fenelon

  Cures, Imaginary

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• Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.

  Oliver DeMille

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Numbers, Decay

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Meaningful, Heart, Greatness

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• Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.

  Horace

  Country, Dear, Ifs

  Horace (1863). “The Works of Horace”, p.236

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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  Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit...

  Stonewall Jackson

  Enemy, Overcoming, Surprise

  "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Vol. II". Book by Robert Underwood Clarence C. Buel, 1884 - 1888.

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• There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.

  Joe Swanberg

  Thinking, Different, Three

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.

  Ted Alexandro

  Drama, Comedy, Casts

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Men, Feelings

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• Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Goal, Progress, Measurement

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2011

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• The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

  Mark Leibovich

  Noble

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• A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Our World, Goal, Atheism

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• That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

  Nina Simone

  Effort, Dying, Aversion

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• It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

  Alvin Toffler

  Mistake, Educational, Goal

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• Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Saint

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• A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection."

  Jonathan Horton

  Perfection, Training, Use

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the greater good is that it invariably leads to things you weren't expecting.

  Tom Riley

  People, Nuclear, Weapons

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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