Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Lewis

The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost,

Sara Teasdale

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Wilhelm Reich

We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

Mahatma Gandhi

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The oldest problem in economic education is how to exclude the incompetent. A certain glib mastery of verbiage-the ability to speak portentously and sententiously about the relation of money supply to the price level-is easy for the unlearned and may even be aided by a mildly enfeebled intellect. The requirement that there be ability to master difficult models, including ones for which mathematical competence is required, is a highly useful screening device.

John Norman

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Dylan Brooks

It was a hobbyist pursuit that served a much narrower niche.

P. T. Barnum

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Albert Einstein

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Thomas Jefferson

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

Martin Seligman

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.