Pursuit Quotes - Page 30

• Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

  Vijay Prashad

  Ambition, President, Curious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more of journal articles are never quoted (which means leaving no trace on our joint scholarly pursuits), and (in my reception at any rate) the "learned journals" (with a few miraculous exceptions that entail, prominently, TCS) ooze monumental boredom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Mean, Boredom, Leaving

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• The current period of regression is registering some success in "producing people" who are subordinated to external power, diverted to such "superficial things" as "fashionable consumption" and other pursuits more fitting for the "bewildered herd" than participation in determining the course of individual and social life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Superficial Things, People, Regression

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I don't really see what can be said about the role of faculty members, or universities, beyond the truisms voiced earlier, and their elaboration in various domains, ranging from focused intellectual pursuits to the concerns of the larger society and future generations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Faculty Members, Intellectual, Generations

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

  T.I.

  Moving, Issues, Way

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Men, Thinking, Males

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."

  Gary Busey

  Football, Running, Team

  Source: www.clydefitchreport.com

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• "Moksha" is really a satire of myself. I've always been interested in Eastern spirituality. I'm particularly interested in enlightenment and the spiritual pursuit to liberate ourselves (I'm a Buddhist at heart). During my teenage years, I imagined I'd end up going to India to become a yogi; study with the last living saints in a cave; give up all my worldly possessions; learn to levitate. And there's still part of me that can see myself "disappearing" for some years at an ashram somewhere.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teenage

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mean, Men, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: autre.love

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• I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Artist, World, Messages

  Source: autre.love

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• Equality is not possible. The pursuit of equality, however, people really love that. For some reason, people attach the most wonderful of motives to people who say they see all this inequality out there and need to fix it. It's just not fair. You'll hear it manifest itself in discussions about the so-called widening gap between the rich and the poor or the widening gap between men and women. It's like actually two twin beds.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Two, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We worry so much in this culture about being happy. The pursuit of happiness is even written in our Constitution. It's an erroneous concept because we are emotional, thinking beings that are constantly affected by a hundred things around us and inside us.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've reported in countries where leaders not only complain about a critical press, but also try to shut it down, throwing reporters in prison or worse. I've seen my colleagues risk their lives and, with increasing frequency, lose their lives in their pursuit of the truth. We are not about to stop doing our jobs because yet another president is unhappy with what he reads or hears or sees on TV news. There is a reason the founders put freedom of the press in the very first amendment to the Constitution.

  Jonathan Karl

  Country, Jobs, Tv News

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Joy, Surfing, Want

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I know a lot of Christians who have been in ministry and walked away from it because the pressure can be too great. And there's a lot of Christians who at the same time would say like well why does God do [certain things]. What I found is Christians regardless of whatever their experience is who trust God more and learn to go through those moments of challenge and persevere. Usually the end result is an experience and interaction with the Holy Spirit that's greater than it was previously. And for me, there is no pursuit that I desire or enjoy more than that interaction.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Christian, Challenges, Desire

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

  Plato

  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

  George Saunders

  Evil, Firsts, Doe

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond, Canada was certainly an additional option for the many traveling the treacherous terrain of the Underground Railroad in pursuit of what was perceived as "freedom."

  Aisha Hinds

  Thank God, Canada, Railroads

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all of our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Source: www.today.com

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• Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Emotional, Skills, Inner Peace

  "Happiness as a Skill" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2017.

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• Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

  Alveda King

  Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness, People

  Source: saynsumthn.wordpress.com

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• I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

  Elaine Equi

  Thinking, Intellectual, Esoteric

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

  Gerry Adams

  People, Unity, Defence

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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