Quotes About Pursuit

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

It's really hard to find good movies, and that's pretty much what I try to find, good movies.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, "Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.