Quotes About Pursuit

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

I've been pursuing music since I was 14.

I'm pursuing a degree in mental health counseling. It'll be a long journey, and I still want to do music and other creative projects.

I am a person who keeps doing something or the other, pursuing one interest after another.

I learned that if you can proceed with a level of anonymity while still pursuing the thing you love, that's the dream.

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

It's been an amazing journey. I've been pursuing a career in this industry for a long time, so when I was finally given an opportunity, I didn't take it for granted.

People are pursuing happiness, but they're pursuing things that will never, ever make them happy, and they don't know that. They've got a distorted view of what will make them happy, what happiness is, and it's based on what they see on television.

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.

I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before really pursuing music.

Growing up, I really wanted my own theater company, and I really wanted to do theater, so I was consciously pursuing it.

When I first started pursuing acting professionally out of college, it was very much in my head that there would be comparisons with potentially both of my parents, and I found that pretty intimidating.

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

I never really thought about pursuing singing because my whole life was about dance and singing just kind of came with it.

When I pursued music, I was told, 'oh, he's just pursuing fame and fortune and he's left the call of Christ in his life.'

For more than 40 years now, relentlessly, I have been pursuing brief encounters with the great and the good.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

The Chinese people are a great people; they are industrious and brave, and they never pause in pursuit of progress.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.