Quotes About Pursuit

Run and hide. We're on our way.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The relentless pursuit of mass will make you boring, because mass means average, it means the center of the curve, it requires you to offend no one and satisfy everyone.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

Pull over here, Bruno said. At the mall. Here? Alex Aaro scowled over his shoulder at them. You're being pursued by hit men, and you want an Egg McMuffin?

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism.

One consequence of the pursuit of an expansive power imaginary is the blurring of the lines separating reality from fancy and truth telling from self-deception and lying. In its imaginary, power is not so much justified as sanctified, excused by the lofty ends it proclaims, ends that commonly are antithetical to the power legitimated by the constitutional imaginary.

With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork," and all in pursuit of the dollar. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working," he ranted, "but learning and working are for life.

How did you fastforward and turn it off? (Danger) I wanted it off and off it went. (Alexion) Wow, that's amazing. I guess this makes me the luckiest woman in the world. (Danger) How so? (Alexion) I've found the only man alive who won't ever shout out, 'honey, where's the remote?' then tear my house apart in pursuit of it. (Danger)

Aren't you ever satisfied? I swear if I were mortal, I'd be limping from our last go-round. If not dead. We really need to find you a hobby other than jumping on top of me. (Acheron)

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something.

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."