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“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

Ifs Art Two Matter Eye Truth Is Gains Connected Chess Pursuit Two Things Martial Arts Links Parallels Thematic

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“The dominance of short-term perspectives has led to routine decisions in the markets that sacrifice the long-term buildup of genuine value in pursuit of artificial, short-term gains.”

Long Values Term Decision Sacrifice Perspective Gains Pursuit Genuine Long Term Routine Artificial Short Term Dominance

Author:Al Gore

“There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little other purpose than to wonder at the rest. Some have hopes and fears, wishes and aversions, which never enter into the thoughts of others, and inquiry is laboriously exerted to gain that which those who possess it are ready to throw away.”

Men Littles Purpose Wish Differences Cities Wonder Ready Gains Pursuit Inquiry Having Hope Aversion Great Cities Hopes And Fears

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.”

Wealth Pleasure Gains Pursuit Pursuit Of Wealth

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.”

Men Kind Inspiration Truth Possibility Higher Truth Is Glory Gains Excellence Mere Pursuit Opening Swings Gymnastics

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Speeches by businessmen on social responsibility...may gain them kudos in the short run. But it helps to strengthen the already too prevalent view that the pursuit of profits is wicked.... There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to...engage in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

May Helping Running Social Views Responsibility Speech Gains Competition Profit Pursuit Deception Wicked Fraud Businessman Social Responsibility

Author:Milton Friedman

“The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.”

Materials Gains Empty Eternity Pursuit

Author:Christopher Moore

“A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.”

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

“Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Book Might Study Information Draws Research Gains Stores Pursuit Conclusion Scholar Cerebral

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.”

Knows Men Way Leadership Business Know How Men And Women Capitalism Gains Economics Western Greed Pursuit Communism Free Market Manipulate Western Society Free Market Capitalism

Author:Davis McCaughey