Quotes About Pursuit

If you're passionate about something, go for it, because people are great at what they love and when they're the happiest.

I always tell kids to find what they're passionate about.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

I can't make it doing anything else, the amount of money. Obviously, anybody can go to work and make money, but the paycheck I make boxing, I'm not going to make anywhere else.

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

I'm constantly looking for perfection.

It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

L'homme ne poursuit que des chimères. ( Man follows only phantoms .) { His true last words, according to Augustus De Morgan .}

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

Pursuit of happiness!? Nonsense!! Happiness of pursuit!

Those hopes will never be fulfilled by cramming as it is, but rather happening through that flame of creativity and innovation, with a relentless pursuit of perfection.

There are very few perfect movies. This is okay, since in the pursuit of cinematic art, perfection shouldn't be the goal. Nevertheless, when it's accomplished (even by accident), it's an achievement.

Among the tragedies of our time is humanity's pursuit of personal peace apart from God's enabling grace. That pursuit takes many forms: material, intellectual, social, even religious; but they all end in futility. When sinners find peace through God's grace, that is beautiful, that is cause for rejoicing! "Grace . . . and peace" is the proper Christian greeting and celebration (v. 2).

My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker., like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever.

My soul is fate's chew toy. My destiny pursues me like an experienced tracker, like a malevolent hunter, bites me and won't let go. What I thought I left behind I find again. I'll always be a failure, then, now, and forever. Fail again. Fail worse. I witness my life's collapse.