Individual Pursuits Quotes

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and desires, all ran along separate lines. Family life is like this - animated, but collateral.

Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.

Other things titillate me more keenly than the pale pleasures of marriage.

I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. Do not talk to him about the interests and rights of the human race; that little private business of his for the moment absorbs all his thoughts, and he hopes that public disturbances can be put off to some other time.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

After Fifth Harmony succeeds to the fullest of its capacity, one day we can go off and do our individual things.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well.

I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.

I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.