#seeking

It's not like every director in every movie is seeking me out by any means, there are a lot of things I'm not suited for, a lot of things I'm not interested in, and a lot of things that directors wouldn't be interested in me for. ↗

— John Hawkes

#director #directors #every #i #interested

The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out. ↗

— John Hawkes

#car #cell #cell phone #computer #computers

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#accomplish #anything #decided #early #ever

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#free #goal #means #receptive #seeking

In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#apprehend #been #case #constructions #i

There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#patience #perseverance #seeking #truth #life

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#carter #democrats #difference #increasingly #like

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#between #external #first #first of all #i

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#been #elsewhere #frantically #horse #may

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#force #might #others #our #price