Quotes about Pursuits

Pursuits become habits. Votes: 3

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] Votes: 3

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. Votes: 1

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. Votes: 1

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. Votes: 1

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. Votes: 1

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. Votes: 1

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Votes: 1

We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink). Votes: 1

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. Votes: 1

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Votes: 1

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. Votes: 1

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits. Votes: 1

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Votes: 1

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. Votes: 1

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it. Votes: 1

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits. Votes: 1

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. Votes: 1

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. Votes: 1

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Votes: 1

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. Votes: 1

Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met. Votes: 1

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life. Votes: 1

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. Votes: 1

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. Votes: 1

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. Votes: 1

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not. Votes: 1

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. Votes: 1

Men of different tastes have different pursuits. Votes: 0

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits. Votes: 0

Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless. Votes: 0

Our unconscious is the key to our life's pursuits. Votes: 0

Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits. Votes: 0

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there? Votes: 0

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. Votes: 0

I have some intellectual-type pursuits, like studying philosophy and stuff like that. Votes: 0

My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that. Votes: 0

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits. Votes: 0

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits. Votes: 0

Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. Votes: 0

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. Votes: 0

To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. Votes: 0

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Votes: 0

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. Votes: 0

Fill your brain with giant dreams so it has no space for petty pursuits. Votes: 0

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight. Votes: 0

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits. Votes: 0

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. Votes: 0

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life. Votes: 0

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. Votes: 0

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. Votes: 0

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art. Votes: 0

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits." Votes: 0

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. Votes: 0

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness. Votes: 0

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts. Votes: 0

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments. Votes: 0

The culture of caring and giving permeates many Indian families. In their own way, they are engaged in philanthropic pursuits. Votes: 0

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits. Votes: 0

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. Votes: 0

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. Votes: 0

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Votes: 0

In all pursuits men complain of failure when they have not attained the measure of success they proposed to themselves. Votes: 0

Life has been reduced to temporal pursuits disconnected from all the other disciplines necessary for life to be meaningfully engaged. Votes: 0

Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits. Votes: 0

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits. Votes: 0

You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits. Votes: 0

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. Votes: 0

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them. Votes: 0

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. Votes: 0

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. Votes: 0

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Votes: 0

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday. Votes: 0

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. Votes: 0

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. Votes: 0

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. Votes: 0

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. Votes: 0

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. Votes: 0

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.] Votes: 0

I really like England. I like the lifestyle and the country. The history. The culture, which London is full of. The country pursuits. Votes: 0

Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy. Votes: 0

I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life. Votes: 0

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Votes: 0

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. Votes: 0

Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. Votes: 0

The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace. Votes: 0

It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment. Votes: 0

The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. Votes: 0

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do Votes: 0

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Votes: 0

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart. Votes: 0

New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States. Votes: 0

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. Votes: 0

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery. Votes: 0

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint. Votes: 0

The thing is, my dad's always been more of a bookworm; he was interested in more intellectual pursuits, but nobody can escape the passion that football stirs. Votes: 0

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. Votes: 0

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. Votes: 0

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds. Votes: 0

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God. Votes: 0

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. Votes: 0

Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life. Votes: 0

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits. Votes: 0

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves. Votes: 0

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account. Votes: 0

A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net. Votes: 0

The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits. But put an extra condiment into your dish, and it will poison you. Votes: 0

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. Votes: 0

The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. Votes: 0

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer. Votes: 0

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits. Votes: 0

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. Votes: 0

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike. Votes: 0

Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits! Votes: 0

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Votes: 0

Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby. Votes: 0

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat. Votes: 0

Though I probably shouldn't admit this, the activities and pursuits in which I've achieved any measure of success are, without exception, activities and pursuits that came easily to me from the beginning. Votes: 0

Im married to my job. Im obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat. Votes: 0

Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits. Votes: 0

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good. Votes: 0

I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits. Votes: 0

The happy pagan is wrapped up in the belief that this world and the success it affords are the greatest pursuits in life. He or she feels no need for anything transcendent. Votes: 0

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. Votes: 0

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor. Votes: 0

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil. Votes: 0

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue. Votes: 0

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. Votes: 0

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them. Votes: 0

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution. Votes: 0

When we attempt to find meaning in the pursuit of pleasure, the commitment to a job, or through plumbing intellectual depths, we all eventually find in each of these pursuits a dead end. Votes: 0

You cannot ignore or completely escape the deeply ingrained short-term reward system within you. But you can become aware of what really motivates you and then tweak your incentives to sustain your long-term pursuits. Votes: 0

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other. Votes: 0

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established. Votes: 0

You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. Votes: 0

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a democratic period is the taste that all men have for easy success and present enjoyment. This occurs in the pursuits of the intellect as well as in others. Votes: 0

It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life. Votes: 0

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am unspeakably grateful at the life I have come to lead. Votes: 0

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. Votes: 0

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' Votes: 0

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. Votes: 0

Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits. Votes: 0

The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week. Votes: 0