Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't… — Anne Sweeney Copy Share Image
I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
When I perform, I always opt for communication with God, and in pursuit of communicating with God, you can enter some very… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to… — Yayoi Kusama Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
“I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less… — Anne Giardini Copy Share Image
“Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and… — John Jay Copy Share Image
We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit… — Georg Simmel Copy Share Image
When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group… — Theo Epstein Copy Share Image
You keep running after the love of the people, but you’ll never get it. And what you do get, will never be… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
“More likely they'd already been identified by the transponder code required on all privately owned vehicles. They were as good as dead.… — Marcha A. Fox Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The image of the scientist who puts the pursuit of truth before anything else has been shattered and replaced by a man… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
