Quotes with searching

  • I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
  • Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Bodhidharma But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Benjamin Haydon Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Anna Quindlen I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Seneca It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alice Walker It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Jim Rohn Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Russell H. Conwell Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.
    Russell H. Conwell
    American Baptist minister, lawyer, and writer
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  • Gloria Steinem Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Alice Miller Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Bruno Dumont The actor already comes with emotions to the scene: fear, the fear of being in front of the camera. It is this fear that spurs the emotion of the scene. I too am afraid; I don't know exactly what I am searching for. On the set, we are all participating in this fear together.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Arvo Part Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • John Steinbeck We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • John Irving Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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