Pursuing Quotes

378 quotes by 320 authors

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals. — Robert Foster Bennett
Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by… — Claude Bernard
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. — Claude Bernard
While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the… — Edward Jenner
No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can… — Dalai Lama
Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People… — Edwin H Friedman
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness… — Jonathan Haidt
I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them… — Dan Dierdorf
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job. — Mark Pocan
I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read.… — Clarence Thomas
'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing… — Rudolf Virchow
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. — William Stafford
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. ... that I persevered. Because I think that… — Sylvester Stallone
In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it… — Barack Obama
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. — Arthur Miller
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of… — James Madison
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein

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