I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey 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
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Schedule in rest in any pursuit. There’s always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have… — Christy Haubegger Copy Share Image
All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit… — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
To the non-initiate, whose experience of sexuality and bodily pleasure may be distorted by negative cultural conditioning, the introduction of sexuality into… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of… — Wilfred Trotter Copy Share Image
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
