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Craft Enterprise

When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

- Adam Braun

Trust Next

Amazon is pursuing something called Amazon Key, which lets its couriers unlock Prime customers' doors and deliver packages. It's pairing the service, which it plans to make available in 37 cities next month, with a camera so users will have intelligence inside and outside their homes, presumably boosting trust and lowering creepiness.

- Adam Lashinsky

Career Needed

Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.

- Ajay Mehta

Hiding Save

You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

- Alex Steffen

TV Almost

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

- Allison Schroeder

University Before

Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.

- Amrita Singh

Means Constant

The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression.

- Andrea Bocelli

Given Built

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

- Andrew Bernstein

Prove Principle

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

- Ang Lee

Line Cut

There are a lot of Latinos who believe that allowing illegal immigrants to cut in front of the line ahead of those pursuing the legal path sends the wrong signal. The GOP needs to articulate that message respectfully but boldly.

- Angela McGlowan

Studio Making

If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

- Anita Elberse

Country Some

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.

- Annie Jacobsen

Idea Rather

It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now work much faster.

- Arvind Gupta

Warrior Hank

Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression.

- Charles Duhigg

Through Chasing

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.

- Chin-Ning Chu

Term Limits

As I stated shortly after retiring from the U.S. Army and first pursuing a seat in Congress in 2010, I planned to self-impose term limits.

- Chris Gibson

Very German

Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?

- Chris Pavone

True Worth Also

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

- Claude Bernard

Mind Loud

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

- Conor McGregor

Made Very

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

- Dan Savage

Think Same

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

- Dan Savage

Warrior Roles

I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

Career Doing

My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.

- Darlene Love

Craft Could

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

- David Crane

Cares Neglecting

Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.

- David Wilkerson

Love Own

Many of those who once were so passionately in love with Christ now run about pursuing their own interests. They're burdened down with stress and problems, chasing after riches and the things of this world.

- David Wilkerson

Depend Dad

I have four sisters at home, and both my mom and dad worked, and both of them took care of us. It wasn't like my mom was fully domestic, or my dad was fully domestic: they were just equals in their relationship. So I grew up with the perspective that women should be pursuing their dreams and not have to depend on a guy.

- Daya

Raising Seemed

It seemed that I was more interested in raising my children, not in pursuing my husbands.

- Debbie Reynolds

United States

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

- John R. Allen

Past Own

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

- John Thorn

Some Been

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

- Joko Beck

Always Films

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

- Jonas Armstrong

Own My Own

I believe in pursuing my own morality. That is all I have ever stuck by. It is my own morality that really matters.

- Jonathan King

More Jon

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

- Joseph M. Kyrillos

I Think Anybody

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.

- Josie Loren

Some Spans

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

- Barbara Olson

Always More

Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

- Harold Evans

Business Sports

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

- Harvey Mackay

Love Undertake

Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing.

- Bill Toomey

Living Fulfilled

I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

- Blake Mycoskie

Success Is About

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

- Bo Bennett

Happiness Means

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

- Bo Bennett

Next Prove

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

- Bonnie McKee

Doing I Think

I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.

- Holly Madison

Development Iran

Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.

- Howard Berman

Mind Career

I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.

- Iain McGilchrist

Listening New

I was in New York and was pursuing musical theater, and it didn't feel right. I felt I was forcing myself to do things and be things that I wasn't, all the time. I wasn't listening to what I wanted to do. I was listening to what I thought I should do.

- Briga Heelan

Thoughts Escaping

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

- Caitlin Flanagan

Side I Remember

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

- Camille Pissarro

Think I Think

I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.

- Jamaica Kincaid

Balance Careers

You can maintain work-life balance even while pursuing careers.

- Chanda Kochhar

Adventurous Very

Spiritual consciousness is, on the whole, very adventurous and all about pursuing our deepest, most fulfilling dreams.

- James Redfield

Education College

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

- Denise Juneau

Actor Became

I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

- Dermot Mulroney

Business Always

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

- Diana Nyad

Game Other

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

- Don Yaeger

Destiny However

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

- Donna Rice

Bottom Protecting

The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.

- Jenna McCarthy

Think I Think

I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

- Jennifer Doudna

Becoming About

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

- Ed Speleers

College Career

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?

- Edie Falco

Desire Harmony

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

- Eisaku Sato

Career Private

The elite private tutor is typically ivy-educated and falls into one of two categories - a twenty-something pursuing an artistic career on the side, or someone older who has made a career out of college-prep. They are presentable, well-spoken, and are treated by doormen as guests more than as employees.

- Eliot Schrefer

Career Young

I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

- Kate Mulgrew

Doing I Think

I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong.

- Katherine Waterston

Sound Sustainable

We must ensure that more binding, durable, and enforceable fiscal rules go hand-in-hand with funding certainty for countries pursuing sound and sustainable economic policies. We need to keep pushing forward towards a comprehensive solution to the challenges of the eurozone.

- Enda Kenny

Singing Move

I'm going to keep pursuing my dream, keep singing and, hopefully, move to L.A.

- Katie Stevens

Romanticism Binds

I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamous binds, because I don't think we're ready for them. The romanticism within our culture dictates that that's what you're supposed to be looking for.

- Ezra Miller

Busy Pursued

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dreams Career

Yes, I live a crazy, exciting, whatever life, but I do think it's quite relatable because it has to be - I'm just a girl from St Louis, Missouri that has lived life like anyone else. There are things that are crazy and over the top, but the basic thread is my family, my career, trying to live and pursuing my dreams.

- Kimora Lee Simmons

Means Ends

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

- Francis Hutcheson

Thought Back

I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

- La'Porsha Renae

City Other

I was always singing but didn't plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

- Lana Del Rey

Grow Stop

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Religious Through

If you look at the young people today, they are passionate about all kinds of courses. We have dog-lovers, nature-lovers, those who are pursuing arts; we have quite many who are involved in religious activities through their church.

- Lee Hsien Loong

Trust Still

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

- Lee Myung-bak

Own Which

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons.

- Garrett Hardin

Some Anything

If you're not interested in history, if you're living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don't think of myself as a cult anything. It's a strange thing to even consider pursuing.

- Leon Redbone

Experience Had

I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obviously did not connect with, so I was always, kind of altering myself for her, But then you realize it's just not worth it. What's the point?

- Logan Lerman

Social Appears

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

- Maggie Gallagher

Art Thoughts

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.

- Philip Kaufman

Henry Ford

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

- Milton Friedman

Argued Strategic

I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

Been About

Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.

- Monique Roffey

Die Beholden

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

College Coverage

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

- Sasha Alexander

Passage Read

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

- Satish Kumar

Path Rest

I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

- Satish Kumar

Commercial More

I don't want to be trending. Instead of pursuing ideas of being more radio-friendly and... commercial, I want to go harder at being more creative.

- Musiq Soulchild

Love Dancing

I don't really know exactly what the plan is... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.

- Todrick Hall

Give Baghdad

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.

- Scott Ritter

Medical Prohibit

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

- Tom Allen

College Bad

No one ever let me be a bad guy once I started working more frequently after I got out of college and started pursuing acting. I just got all of the good-guy roles because if I walk in the room, not a lot of people believe me as a bad guy.

- Tom Everett Scott

Love Career

My advice for young Latinas interested in pursuing a career in Hollywood is to make sure you love to perform and make sure you get the training you need.

- Maria Canals Barrera

Almost Youngsters

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

- Shaffi Mather

Doing Other

I am a person who keeps doing something or the other, pursuing one interest after another.

- Shaheer Sheikh

Enjoy Big

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

- Shakti Gawain

Thought Doing

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it.

- Shani Davis

Stories Treatment

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Border Large

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

- Nelson A. Miles

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