Quotes About Pursuit

We feel this passion that we have for music and this relentless need to pursue it and follow it and go wherever it takes. It's just something that's ingrained into us - it's ingrained in us so deeply that we say it's 'in our bones.'

I have been relentless in my pursuit to hold Eric Holder accountable for his actions and will not rest until the door officially hits him on his way out.

If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

I went to grad school in San Francisco, and then left for New York City with my eye on Broadway. I had saved $5000, which seemed like a lot of money in my mind... until I realized it was going to take $2500 to get to New York and then the first and last month's rent.

For me, 'The Social Network' isn't about Facebook. It certainly isn't about how people use it. It's about a flawed character and his pursuit of that grand idea that defines him and validates his life and how far he'll go to get it, and the repercussions that come as a result of that - what he gives up in the process.

We have the wrong people chasing Osama bin Laden. It ought to be athletic directors and reporters. They'll find you.

I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

When I first moved out to Los Angeles I was thinking, you know, I wanted to be an actor but I didn't really know what acting was about. I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I'd be happy.

I started acting imagining how happy I would be if I could be on screen one day. I think I act because I love doing it.

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it.

U-223 turned southwards, and quickly worked up to 16 knots, her thundering diesels matching the heartbeat of all on board. The chase was on.

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.