Unending Pursuit Quotes

Repeating, trying to repeat success - it never gets easier.

I've always had that personality that nothing was never good enough.

I never stop. I'll never truly retire, because my mind is always on go.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

Ambition has no rest!

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not a comfortable life. It's not relaxed. I'm not relaxed as a person. I mean, I'm not unhappy. But... it's the opposite of being comfortable.

Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.