Seeking Quotes · Page 35

The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants…

— Alexander Graham Bell

[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at…

— Warren Buffett

I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library)…

— Alfred Kazin

When a problem arises, don't fight with it or try to deny it. Accept and acknowledge it. Be patient in seeking a…

— Joe Hyams

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life.…

— Ravi Zacharias

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as…

— Henry David Thoreau

The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me,…

— Willem Dafoe

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all…

— Bodhidharma

I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and…

— Glen Duncan

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow…

— James Russell Lowell

Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it.

— Margaret Fuller

I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different…

— Greg Proops

We have long been seeking a different kind of evolutionary process and have now found one; namely, the change within the pattern…

— Richard Goldschmidt

“The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to…

— Albert Bandura

“People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.”

— Bryant McGill

No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even…

— Gordon Tullock

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

— Saint Augustine

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to…

— Philippe Petit

I am still covering conflict to some degree. I was back in Iraq. I've covered quite a bit of the Israel and…

— Peter van Agtmael

Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of…

— Thomas Huxley

...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness…

— John of Kronstadt

Successful trial lawyers are like heat-seeking missiles carrying payloads of information prejudicial to their opponent's case, constantly looking for the chance to…

— David Berg

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an…

— Jimmy Carr