Psychological wealth includes life satisfaction, the feeling that life is full of meaning, a sense of engagement in interesting activities, the pursuit… — Ed Diener Copy Share Image
Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Like for Einstein, and for people who create nuclear weapons, the problem with the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of the… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a… — Pete Goss Copy Share Image
Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
No one can obtain felicity by pursuit. This explains why one of the elements of being happy is the feeling that a… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it?… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut… — Horace Copy Share Image
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative… — Virgil Goode Copy Share Image
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you… — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
