T Quotes
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“The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.”
“The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.”
Source: Confessions of an advertising man
“The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.”
“The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.”
Source: White Bird in a Blizzard
“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.”
“The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin…. [G]ood men build; great men destroy. They destroy because they try to control something other than themselves and that always leads to destruction.”
Source: Blythe
“The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.”
Source: Beach Music
“The pursuit of happiness begins with good health.”
“The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness.”
“The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.”
Source: Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
“The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.”
“The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.”
Source: Authentic Happiness
“The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can”
“The pursuit of happiness is internal.”
Source: Fragments
“The pursuit of happiness is made bearable only with bouts of laughter.”
“The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.”
“The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.”
“The pursuit of happiness never ends.”
“The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.”
Source: The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge
“The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it?”
“The pursuit of health became a means for professionalizing middle class of he late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to know and identify itself and to stake claims to responsibility and authority. Health became a key marker of middle-class morality and identity, but its utility as such derived in large part from the way it could distinguish members of the responsible middle class from those beneath them in the social hierarchy who failed to achieve the goal of health.”
Source: Eating Right in America: The Cultural Politics of Food and Health
“The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.”
“The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.”
“The pursuit of holiness is the paradise of happiness.”
“The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure”
Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness
“The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.”
Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition
“The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.”
Source: The Data of Ethics: Great Essays
“The pursuit of jealous ken him dazzled as an oppugnant to you”
“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after he comes to faith. It is not simply a way to “enhance” your walk with the Lord. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit, your “faith” cannot please God. It is not saving faith. Saving faith is the confidence that if you sell all you have and forsake all sinful pleasures, the hidden treasure of holy joy will satisfy your deepest desires. Saving faith is the heartfelt conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is desirable. It is the confidence that He will come through with His promises and that what He promises is more to be desired than all the world.”
Source: Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
“The pursuit of joy in God is not optional.
It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he comes to
faith. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit your 'faith' cannot
please God. It is not savng faith. Saving faith is the heartfelt
conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is
desirable.”
“The pursuit of knowledge and the skills that come with it must be done strategically. We must put the society we live in into serious consideration before we embark on this journey.
We can't isolate our skills from the need of the society we live in”
“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.”
Source: The World As I See It
“The pursuit of knowledge is, after all, an adventure in itself, fraught with risks and unimaginable rewards.”
Source: The Time Codes: The Quest to Unravel the Truth
“The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.”
Source: Exuberance: The Passion for Life
“The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.”
“The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.”
“The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“The pursuit of knowledge without understanding is like filling a cup with no bottom; accumulating information without comprehension is as useless as carrying a lantern with no flame—it offers no light. For knowledge becomes wisdom only when it finds its roots in understanding.”
“The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.”
“The pursuit of love is the highest passion of life.”
“The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.”
Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.”
“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
Source: Science and the Modern World
“The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile.”
Source: Are You Fully Charged? (Intl): The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life
“The pursuit of money and power is ultimately an empty one. That's why we see so many billionaires unburdening themselves of their wealth to downsize to a more frugal life.”
“The pursuit of money is empty and soul-destroying, and so is your bank account if you don't do it.”