Pursue Quotes - Page 9

• Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

  Plato

  Soul, Doe, Sake

  Republic, bk.6, 505e (translated by GM AGrube, revised by C D C Reeve).

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• I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.

  Martin Luther

  Children, People, Doe

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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• The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.

  Meher Baba

  Reality, Water, Drug

  "An analysis of the problems presented in the use of LSD" by Graham C. Taylor, M.D., www.unodc.org. January 1, 1967.

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• The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts... Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Independent, Emotional

  "The Collected Works of Northrop Frye, Volume 19: 'The Secular Scripture' and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976-1991". Book by Northrop Frye, November 1, 2005.

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• And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave.

  Henry Kirke White

  Care, Victim, Graves

  Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey, John Todd (1854). “The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White: Also Containing His Melancholy Hours”, p.241

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• Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

  Charles Wesley

  Thinking, Names, Speak

  1749 'Forth in Thy Name', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

  Elizabeth I

  Lying, Shadow, Done

  c.1582 'On Monsieur's Departure'.

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• To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

  Vannevar Bush

  Spirit

  1953 Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 5 Oct.

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• If you pursue a distancer, he or she will distance more. Consider it a fundamental law of physics.

  Harriet Lerner

  Distance, Law, Fundamentals

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• Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning, in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.

  Michel Foucault

  Order, Differences, Giving

  Michel Foucault (2002). “Archaeology of Knowledge”, p.21, Psychology Press

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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

  Kofi Annan

  Effort, Environmental, Degradation

  "In larger freedom: towards development, security and human rights for all". Report for the United Nations sixtieth anniversary summit, 2005.

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• Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Overcoming

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• I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.

  Dave Bautista

  Dream, Hard Work, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Running, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

  Cornel West

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think it is a very natural tendency for the nations to increase their influence in the international space, as they pursue their international relations with different countries.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Thinking, Space

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Iraq, Promise

  "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani". The Toronto Star, September 23, 2006.

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• If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

  Robert Jordan

  Two, Hares, Ifs

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

  Preston Manning

  Religious, Home, Commitment

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Light, Order, People

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention (December 27, 1792), as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 383), 1908.

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• I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

  Samuel Garth

  Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint

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• Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

  Bob Proctor

  Essence, Goal, Parent

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 29, 2011

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• The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Purpose

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

  Jorg Immendorff

  Goal, Different, Engagement

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