Elusive Quotes - Page 9

• The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Self, Self Knowledge

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• Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Cancer, Understanding

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  Paul Davies

  Cancer, Doe, Stories

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.

  Suzanne Vega

  New York, Firsts, Ends

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• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  William Styron

  Writing, Past, Judging

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

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• I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.

  Andrew Bird

  Definitions

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• Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Fiction, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil production not only cost the United States economy billions of dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an elusive goal: true American energy security.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Oil, Goal

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• Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

  Keri Russell

  Moving, Hard Work, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Humans

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• A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

  Tom Lantos

  Iraq, Environment, Neighbor

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• As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Truth, Pursuit Of Happiness, Turns

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society

  Irving Howe

  Self, Space, Mind

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• Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Opportunity, Years, Advancement

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• Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

  Brian Johnson

  Practice, Needs, Treasure

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• 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

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• 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 unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

  Ruskin Bond

  Mind, Way, States

  Ruskin Bond (2017). “The Lamp Is Lit”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

  Bill Gates

  Smart, Creativity, Technology

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• The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

  Erik Erikson

  Happiness, Home, People

  "Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History".

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• 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, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

  Sandy Gingras

  Beach, Moving, Jumping

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

  Laurie Simmons

  Important, Stopping, Starting

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• In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

  Ben Marcus

  Passion, Track, Profound

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• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Melting, Surroundings

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