#pursuits

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. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #biggest #concern #concerned #doing

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

— Herbert Spencer

#know #never #poetry #pursuits #scientific

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#aspirations #fame #goals #goodness #inspirational

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?' ↗

— Brian Eno

#else #front #i #i think #microphone

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

— George H. White

#accuser #avenue #closes #hard #idleness

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#general #government #interferes #less #private

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. ↗

— John Mayer

#impress #mother #pursuits #trying #words

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. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #chance #condition #conscience #depend

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

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. ↗

— Luke Scott

#am #apologetic #built #correct #country