Elusive Quotes

191 Elusive quotes by 175 unique authors

With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's… — Charles S. Maier
Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined.… — Caroline Knapp
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. — Mirra Komarovsky
Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from… — Eckhart Tolle
Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if… — John Wooden
A most important, but also most elusive, aspect of any tool is its influence on the habits of those who train themselves in its use.… — Edsger Dijkstra
The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think… — Warren Buffett
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so brief that we… — Alan Watts
Everything in life is elusive. — Gloria Vanderbilt
If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you… — David Jeremiah
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story… — David Ives
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and… — Madeleine Vionnet
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances. — Francis Ponge
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence. — Yi-Fu Tuan
That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle… — Cassia Leo
Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE. — Brian Johnson
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure. — Eve Ensler
Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be… — Ruskin Bond
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to… — Alan Watts
At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents,… — Sandy Gingras
I've sort of heard that "it" girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I… — Rachel McAdams
If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life… — Cliff Richard
You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear… — Daniel Goldin
Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now — Wayne Dyer

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