#pursuit

Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#religion #temper

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#appreciation #best #better #especially #ever

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

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. ↗

— John Kluge

#excellence #life #my life #philosophy #pursuit

I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#colleagues #engaged #here #i #knowledge

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. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#beauty #believe #father #felt #gave

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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