Quotes About Pursuit

Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?

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The roots of the word "compete" are the Latin con petire, which meant "to seek together.

If Diogenes with his lantern twenty-three centuries ago had difficulty finding an honest man, today he would have perhaps an even more troublesome time finding a happy one.

seems more beneficial to find out how everyday life can be made more harmonious and more satisfying, and thus achieve by a direct route what cannot be reached through the pursuit of symbolic goals.

aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.

Scientists often describe the autotelic aspects of their work as the exhilaration that comes from the pursuit of truth and of beauty. What they seem to describe, however, is the joy of discovery, of solving a problem, of being able to express an observed relationship in a simple and elegant form. So what is rewarding is not a mysterious and ineffable goal but the activity of science itself. It is the pursuit that counts, not the attainment.

No one Accidentally creates Disciples. Discipleship is an intentional Pursuit..

one creates a discipling culture, modeled on the life and ministry of Jesus, by accident. No one accidentally creates disciples. Discipleship is an intentional pursuit.

is a mistake to market God as the answer to our insatiable desires when He was the one who made certain our desires were insatiable in the first place. God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring

God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring us to the place where we'll acknowledge our need for Him.

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

The villain still pursued her.

Like a man starved, Noa filled his mind, ravenous for good books.

Rune: "They're getting away!" Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!" Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really?

run, run, you can't get away, the monk can run but the temple will never get away!

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

But when a girl has set one's heart on fire, What won't one do to gain the heart's desire

It wasn't sex. It wasn't just sex. It was her. I wanted her and I wanted the honor of being wanted by her. And fuck if I hadn't made my whole life about getting what I wanted.

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.

The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity, battle without conflict, "refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings," and the sort of beauty changeless mountains present to sense tried by the present-day kaleidoscope of events.

I said, "The thing we quested after is never attained." He said, "The unattainable - that thing is my desire!

We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.