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Quotes About Pursuit

This is how Resistance disfigures love. The stew it creates is rich, it's colorful; Tennessee Williams could work it up into a trilogy. But is it love? If we're the supporting partner, shouldn't we face our own failure to pursue our unlived life, rather than hitchhike on our spouse's coattails? And if we're the supported partner, shouldn't we step out from the glow of our loved one's adoration and instead encourage him to let his own light shine?
~ Steven Pressfield
evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
~ Steven Pressfield
Money and the necessity of its craven pursuit have polluted and twisted our elections in destructive ways that all reduce the power of the individual, distorting the essence of democracy in ways unimaginable even fifty years ago.
~ Stuart Stevens
a fingerprint on a bar glass or something, I could run that. Otherwise, I'll need a lot more time to nail him down." "I'll have a shot at it," Stone
~ Stuart Woods
If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths, and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.
~ Susan Howatch
It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made." CHARLES E. RAVEN
~ Susan Howatch
Passion for a pursuit was the best feeling.
~ Susan Wiggs
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
~ Josh Billings
Take the proper precautions before following your dreams, because in reality, we must awknowledge ourselves before its game time.
~ Josh D.
A wolf cannot outrun its shadow.
~ Josh Lanyon
This journey, from child back to child again, is at the very core of my understanding of success. I believe that one of the most critical factors in the transition to becoming a conscious high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.
~ Josh Waitzkin
successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.
~ Josh Waitzkin
I believe that one of the most critical factors in the transition to becoming a conscious high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.
~ Josh Waitzkin
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
~ Josh Waitzkin
In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.
~ Josh Waitzkin
John has always been searching for something," says Jennifer Irwin, McAfee's girlfriend at the time. She remembers him telling her once that he was trying to reach "the expansive horizon.
~ Joshua Davis
True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.
~ Joshua Harris
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
~ Joyce Grenfell
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
~ Joyce Meyer
You need to play a little hard to get. No man appreciates what comes too easily. It's the caveman thing. We like to hunt.
~ Jude Deveraux
Have you found the milk," he asked, "or must I venture out in search of a cow?
~ Julia Quinn
The mere thought of trying to attract a suitor was exhausting.
~ Julia Quinn
Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.
~ John James Audubon
I knew I wanted to be an actor but didn't know how to go about it. That's why my ambition, initially, was not to play a lead role in a Bollywood film.
~ Mithila Palkar