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Quotes About Pursuit

I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.
~ Chris Thile
No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.
~ Michel de Montaigne
El amor no es más que el deseo furioso de algo que huye de nosotros...
~ Michel de Montaigne
I know well what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Vintage wine and alehouse beer is how Bodley likes to put it. In the pursuit of pleasure, both have their place.
~ Michel Faber
Poder y placer no se anulan; no se vuelven el uno contra el otro; se persiguen, se encabalgan y reactivan. Se
~ Michel Foucault
Bitmi? bir ?eyin pe?inden ko?man?n manas? ne?
~ Mihail Bulgakov
My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Zach Harriman was home. Not worried about watching his back now. Just thinking that the Bads better watch theirs. He wasn't worried about them chasing him, not anymore. From now on, he was chasing them.
~ Mike Lupica
The systematic pursuit of desired conditions by utilizing human capabilities in a concerted way.
~ Mike Rother
I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female in the world.
~ Milan Kundera
She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.
~ Milan Kundera
The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabina was now by herself. She went back to the mirror, still in her underwear. She put the bowler hat back on her head and had a long look at herself. She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.
~ Milan Kundera
Entre los hombres que van tras muchas mujeres podemos distinguir fácilmente entre dos categorías: Unos buscan su propio sueño subjetivo y siempre igual, sobre la mujer. Los segundos son impulsados por el deseo de apoderarse de la infinita variedad del mundo objetivo de la mujer
~ Milan Kundera
Et moi ? Et moi ? Moi qui te cherche sur kilomètres de plage, moi qui crie ton nom en pleurant et qui suis capable de courir après toi par toute la planète?
~ Milan Kundera
Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado. Sólo podemos encontrarla cuando sus perseguidores la han dejado olvidada por error en algún sitio.
~ Milan Kundera
A quién odiaba más? ¿Al que no la quería o al que se esforzaba por conquistarla?
~ Milan Kundera
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to bring comfort to the needy - all are pursuing their interests, as they see them, as they judge them by their own values.
~ Milton Friedman
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
~ Plato
I took some time off to enjoy my life, but figure skating is something I love and something I will continue doing for the rest of my life.
~ Oksana Baiul
Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.
~ Richard Branson