Quotes About Pursuit

My first few years, I'd make maybe $10 for a match. Sometimes I wouldn't even get paid at all, but we were all in it because we loved it.

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

It's like an addiction: you win one medal and you want to win more.

When I went home at 20 to tell my parents, 'I don't want to be an engineer, I want to try and write books,' I was braced for, 'That's not gonna happen.' But I didn't get that response, and maybe it was because of my dad's experience of having an artistic dream and having to put it aside.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

My own favorite is something called Rogue Male.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

There isn't anything I wanted to do that I haven't. At the same time, there isn't anything I've ever done that I didn't want to do better.

I really want to act and act in great roles, which have scope of performance.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

I'm in the search for the perfect game.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.

A lot of people who want to be serious artists probably don't want to go for a talent show, but it is a great launching pad.

I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

Our desires are to mature, so that our souls, brought to life by the Spirit, move us to pursue real treasure and eternal glory with passion.

Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision

There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means of expression; he is always pursuing facts and words.

What we're doing is an aesthetic pursuit. It involves craftsmanship as well as mathematics and it involves people skills and prose skills—all of these things that we don't necessarily think of as engineering but without which I don't think you'll ever be a really good engineer.

Gabriel Tardes's remark that "life is a search for the impossible via the useless.

Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.