Quotes About Pursuits

have only one audience. Before you I have nothing to prove, nothing to gain, nothing to lose."3 Living for an audience of one would simplify your life tremendously, wouldn't it? When God is your sole focus, decisions become so much easier. Your heart will know the peace and contentment that comes from seeking to please and glorify God alone. Your life will be richer because your pursuits will have eternal goals in mind, not earthly.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

There is no one quality gives so much dignity to a character, as consistency of conduct. Even if a man's pursuits be wrong and unjustifiable, yet if they are prosecuted with steadiness and vigor, we cannot withhold our admiration.

I've always received a lot of support from my family, particularly for my pursuits as an actor. I'm very lucky.

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

I have always loved cinema more than the cricket. I don't think there is any harm in taking a different field.

Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

The philosophy of nature evolved by occasional leaps and bounds alternating with delusional pursuits, culs-de-sac, regressions, periods of blindness, and amnesia. The great discoveries which determined its course were sometimes the unexpected by-products of a chase after quite different hares. At other times, the process of discovery consisted merely in the cleaning away of the rubbish that blocked the path, or in the rearranging of existing items of knowledge in a different pattern.

The only thing that stands in our power to achieve, is to make the most advantageous use possible of the personal qualities we possess, and accordingly to follow such pursuits only as will call them into play, to strive after the kind of perfection of which they admit and to avoid every other; consequently, to choose the position, occupation and manner of life which are most suitable for their development.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

I don't think I have any hobbies.

I don't really like the word 'hobbies.'

Sometimes, you just need hobbies.

I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really.

It's good to have hobbies.

I don't really have any hobbies.

I have hobbies.

When I am not shooting, it gives me time to follow my other hobbies.

My life is a life of hobbies and enthusiasm.

I probably need to get a few more hobbies besides sports because that's pretty much what I've done my whole life.

The problem is my movie career is hindering my hockey schedule.

The order of the Universe is identified with the Divine Mind, and the scientist is said to be discovering the mind of God in his scientific pursuits. Scientific method itself has been called a Christian method of discovering God's mind.