Quotes About Pursuit

For me, I kind of just follow my passions and follow what I love to do and use my free time to kind of answer those questions and go through my bad moods and maybe a little light case of depression.

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

I only got into show business because I quit football.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it's to pursue whatever their goals may be.

When I moved to Los Angeles to be on the radio, there was an acting school on every corner. You can't be in L.A. and not be into acting.

Every time you do something, make something, it's final in a way, but it's not. It immediately raises a great set of questions. And if you become a question addict, which I am, you immediately have something you need to pursue.

Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

I know it's cliche to say, 'When you do something you love you never work a day in your life.' But it is true: When you do something you love, life gets to be a little bit easier and enjoyable. So I just want people to follow their dreams.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

If you deserve it, go get it.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Whenever there used to be any audition in Chandigarh I would go for it.

If you like something, go for it.

When I see something, I go for it.

My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow.

You can find love at any age. You just have to go for it.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

That's what we want people to do. Select a goal or gold and go after it.