Quotes About Pursuit

These subjects were also covered in classes, but this was the Age of Enlightenment and the pursuit of knowledge was all the rage—even among fun-loving young men. Benjamin

So above all, constantly chase after the realm of God's kingdomaa and the righteousness that proceeds from him. Then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly.

If there is a trait embedded even more deeply in the mainstream American character than the pursuit of money, it is fear of the Other.

However, as pursuit of happiness morphed into pursuit of material, all of the promises became compromised. So what went wrong? How did this happen?

The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

It's all right to be a happy amateur. And it's all right to be truly gifted. But to be competent and middling bad at an artifice that you care about—that's a nightmare.

happiness is not a place it is a direction

Oh! Ahab, cried Starbuck, not too late is it, even now, the third day, to desist. See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!

Were this world an endless plain, and by sailing eastward we could for ever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.

Ma quando viaggiando non facciamo altro che inseguire i remoti misteri di cui sogniamo, o dare la caccia in modo straziante a quel fantasma demoniaco che prima o poi nuota davanti a ogni cuore umano; allora, quando diamo la caccia a cose del genere tutt'intorno a questo tondo globo, tali cose ci portano all'interno di sterili labirinti, oppure ci lasciano sommersi a metà strada.

It was not till the boats returned from the pursuit of these whales, that the whites saw their ship in bloody possession of the savages enrolled among the crew.   ââ'¬â€NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING AND RETAKING OF THE WHALE-SHIP HOBOMACK.

As in a dream a man is not able to follow one who runs 200  from him, nor can the runner escape, nor the other pursue him, so he could not run him down in his speed, nor the other get clear.

The dictatorships of tomorrow will deprive men of their freedom, but will give them in exchange a happiness none the less real, as a subjective experience, for being chemically induced. The pursuit of happiness is one of the traditional rights of man; unfortunately, the achievement of happiness may turn out to be incompatible with another of man's rights — namely, liberty.

There was a scream of tortured rubber as the tyres caught the boulevard in a harsh left-handed turn, the deafening echo of a Citroën's exhaust in second gear, a crash into top, then a swiftly diminishing crackle as the car hared off between the shops on the main street towards the coast-road.

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Love just follows you.

My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

If you find something that you're excited about and you're interested in, my advice to young women and young men would be do what you're really interested in and what drives and motivates you.

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made.

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Make sure that you are happy with what you are doing; otherwise, you will be miserable. Pursue your dream. Don't give up.

I tell you what, if somebody gives you the opportunity to live your dream, wouldn't you want to do it for a lot of hours?