Top 1200 Relentless Pursuit Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The aim of any writer, even a fantasy writer, is the pursuit of truth.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

Our bodies are held captive, but our pursuit of freedom cannot be contained.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route.

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

A life in pursuit of position or power is not a life well-lived or in service to others.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

There are patches in the GRC that are actually full of low-income people... and we cannot leave them behind in our pursuit of economic development and success.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

I've turned it into the constant pursuit of natural and healthy living, which is much more than just exercise and how you eat. It's a way of life.

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

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

The hardworking men and women of this country identify with my father. He is tough, and he is persevering. He is honest, and he is real. He's an optimist, and he's a relentless believer in America and all of her potential. He loves his family, and he loves his country with his heart and his soul.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

You... are now servants to the ear that needs quiet solace, and the eye that needs the consolation of beauty, servants to the mind that needs desperate repose or pointed inquiry, to the heart that needs invitation to flight or silent understanding, and to the soul that needs safe landing, or fearless, relentless enlightenment.

People see the speed; people see the innovation, the relentless innovation, and that's what Google is about.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

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

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.