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Quotes About Pursuit

The Law of Financial Viability When deciding whether to follow an appealing pursuit that will introduce more control into your work life, seek evidence of whether people are willing to pay for it. If you find this evidence, continue. If not, move on.
~ Cal newport
The second reason is that the subversive decision to pursue FI at a young age, which typically leads to radical lifestyle decisions, self-selects for individuals who are unusually intentional about how they live their lives.
~ Cal newport
So next time you start to question whether you're missing out on some dream job waiting for you to muster the courage to pursue it, conjure up a pair of images. First, recall passion-obsessed Thomas, heartbroken and sobbing on the forest floor. Then replace this with the image of the smiling, confident, value-focused man who ten years later joined me for coffee—the version of Thomas who looked at me at one point in our conversation and remarked, without irony, "Life is good.
~ Cal newport
The First Control Trap In which I introduce the first control trap, which warns that it's dangerous to pursue more control in your working life before you have career capital to offer in exchange. Jane's
~ Cal newport
There's nothing intrinsic about the manual trades when it comes to generating this particular source of meaning. Any pursuit—be it physical or cognitive—that supports high levels of skill can also generate a sense of sacredness.
~ Cal newport
As Derek explained to me, he started by pursuing music at night and on the weekend. "I didn't quit my day job until I was making more money with my music.
~ Cal newport
Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.
~ Caleb Carr
P252 Habit dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice, and to make the best of a pursuit that disagrees, because there is no other for which we are fitted, and it is too late to begin again.
~ Caleb Carr
We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.
~ Caleb Carr
Pursuit and seduction are the essence of SEXuality. It's part of the sizzle.
~ Camille Paglia
Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.
~ Camille Paglia
I've decided that it's possible to LOVE someone for entirely SELFLESS reasons, for all of their flaw and weaknesses, and still NOT succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not TRAGIC, unless you dwell forever in the PURSUIT of their elusive affections.
~ Cammie McGovern
I've decided that it's possible to love someone for entirely selfless reasons, for all of their flaws and weaknesses, and still not succeed in having them love you back. It's sad, perhaps, but not tragic, unless you dwell forever in the pursuit of their elusive affections.
~ Cammie McGovern
Roxanne Archer designed her strategy like a four-star general—or a stalker.
~ Candace Schuler
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
On the stone slab beneath the chimney-piece are inscribed the words Non fatuum huc persecutus ignem – 'It is no will-o'-the-wisp that I have followed here.
~ Gavin Maxwell
Ever hear the one about that dog that spent its life chasing cars and finally caught one—and had no idea what to do with it? I'm that dog.
~ Gayle Forman
I was panting by the time we reached the back of the casino. I felt perspiration run down my back and my sandals pinch my feet. They were adorable, but they were not made for chasing bad guys. Nevertheless, I kept going,
~ Gemma Halliday
curiously, we set out. By this point, Diego
~ Gemma Halliday
And she didn't want great secrets of necromancy, or any other sort of magic. She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read. Being chased by hellhounds and blowing things up were comparatively unimportant parts of the job.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Alberich was a figure out of nightmare. He was the one Librarian who'd betrayed the Library and got away with it and was still somewhere out there.
~ Genevieve Cogman
We do not have, nor are we willing to adopt, any discipline that would ever require us to stop pursuing any sale at any time for any reason. We are, in other words, not a market- driven company; we are a sales-driven company.
~ Geoffrey A. Moore
For he that naught n' assaieth, naught n' acheveth.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Unknowe, unkist, and lost, that is unsought.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer