Quests Quotes - Page 21

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

Robin Chase

Book, Innovation, Collaboration

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It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Spike Lee

People, Black, Identity

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The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

Benjamin Percy

Writing, Men, Grace

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For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Leland Ryken

Spiritual, Holiness, Moral

Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins

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Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now.
It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late.

Richard Matheson

Men, Our World, Civilization

"The Path". Book by Richard Matheson, 1999.

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Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest.

Paul Brunton

Practice, Meditation, Fundamentals

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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Musical, Enjoyed

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

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Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

Don Edward Beck

Sports, Wine, Destiny

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He couldn't say it. He couldn't tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If she had feigned her feelings for him - if he'd bought into her lies and her quest for freedom... He wasn't sure what he would do. He could hurt her.

CJ Roberts

Hurt, Lying, Mean

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To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

Deepak Chopra

Doubt, Age, Firsts

Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

Plato, Writing, Media

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There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

Joseph Campbell

Hero, Night, Journey

Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.76, New World Library

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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

Viktor E. Frankl

Tasks, Taught, Life Is

"Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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Invade me now, my ruthless friend,

And make me cower in the dark.

Remind me that I'm all alone

And draw upon my face your mark.

How is it that you capture me,

When all my thoughts deny your force?

Is it the reptile in my brain

That lets your terror run its course?

Baseless Fear undoes us all

Despite our quest for lofty goals.

We would-be Galahads don't die,

Fear just freezes all our souls.

It keeps us mute when feeling love,

Reminding us what we might lose.

And if by chance we meet success,

Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

Arthur C. Clarke

Running, Fear, Dark

Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Marya Mannes

Success, Real, Anxiety

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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Discovery, Two, Different

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Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Land, America, Perfection

Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

Michel de Montaigne

Running, Distance, Men

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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

Bill Bryson

Food, Effort, Drug

Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel de Montaigne

Fashion, Ambition, Wish

Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

Steven Biko

Brother, Men, Community

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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.

Samuel Beckett

Morning, Night, Soul

Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.48, Grove Press

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I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Graham Hancock

Past, Intuition, Trying

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Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love, Sweat, Climbing

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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

Warren Weaver

Animal, People, Religion

Warren Weaver (1967). “Science and Imagination: Selected Papers”

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