#pursuit

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#delusion #folly #illusion #preserve #pursuit

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit. ↗

— Donald Johanson

#africa #anthropology #around #began #biology

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone. ↗

— Yoshio Taniguchi

#buildings #certain #designed #drawings #fact

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#application #austere #degenerate #doubt #formulas

Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. ↗

— George Vancouver

#attention #being #breeze #considering #continued

The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster. ↗

— Chris Morris

#disaster #ends #pursuit #usually