Quotes About Pursuit

You can have great autonomy in the things you choose to learn and pursue on your own time. When you're learning things that interest you, challenge you, and make life worth living, getting an education can be blissful and stimulating.

If these artist were trying to convince me that the pursuit of love in the postdigital age was more exciting, more mysterious, more…. well, everything love should be, they'd failed.

So you keep running after the things you want, because you think they will satisfy you - and you truly do think that in the past they gave you satisfaction. But the satisfaction itself, the real feeling of it, somehow slips the net. It's anticipated and remembered but almost never experienced.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

No man lived a more strong and beautiful life than did John Wesley, and his view of death was that whenever it came he would be found at his duty; and the transition from that duty to heaven's service would be a natural one. Instead of death, let the Lord be expected; and the true attitude of life will be that of quiet pursuit of duty and constant readiness to greet Him.

Code writing was a solitary pursuit, but designing and fitting together diverse pieces demanded cooperation and compromise.

Moi ? C'est une image que je poursuis, rien de plus.

I've had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one's very door or perhaps in one's very bed. I'm still a man on the run, but I shall try to stop and wait.

The way he put it to Marx: "This summer is my last chance to do something truly grand.

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

Hay un gran peligro substancioso en ir a cazar lo insubstancial

Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.

Pursuing a balanced life means never pursuing anything at the extremes.

Marriage is a good thing, and being intentional about your pursuit of it is commendable, not shameful.

we can use marriage for the same purpose—to grow in our service, obedience, character, pursuit, and love of God.

Though pursuing holiness seems to be—and, in fact, is—a noble aim, and wanting to experience greater depth in holiness appears to be—and, in fact, is—a godly pursuit, it's possible that our desire for increased growth may be fueled by pride, ambition, and self-interest—and our attitude as we wait is often the best indicator of what our true motivation is.

Ascetics are "strict" only because they want to reserve a major portion of their lives for their passionate pursuit of God.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.

I don't need answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.