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Last updated on October 1, 2024.
Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.
If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment.
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.
Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.
I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.
If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.
The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.
[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.
The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.
My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit.
Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
The best way for me to help with my life principals of transparency, democratization, excellence and modernity. I think it has to be like that in every area.
Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
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A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.
I cannot wait to get to Boston and start to practice with the rest of the team in pursuit of a championship.
I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to everybody.
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
Composing is what drives me; it's not the pursuit of fame. My songs are like pages in a diary.
Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it.
Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.
If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.
It's very difficult and unfair probably to compare players from different eras, because they were able to reach excellence in their time and they have to be rewarded for that.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
I didn't leave 'Bonanza' in pursuit of any particular goal. I left for my own good.
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
