Top 100 Seek Out Quotes
#1. There are so many much bigger realities that bring pain and anger that I've learned to seek out small joys every day. It is one of the greatest forms of self-defense that I know.
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Inga Muscio
#2. I'm afraid of myself. I don't understand this compulsion of mine to seek out the street and the night when it does me so much harm.
Aura Estrada
#3. Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
J. C. Macaulay
#4. When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.
Bridgit Mendler
#5. I'm all for lifestyle evangelism, but I'm also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.
Lee Strobel
#6. I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior.
Terence Winter
#7. Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.
Thomas Keller
#8. Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
Pat Summitt
#9. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
Harry Allen Overstreet
#10. The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. The Klingons are not calling to the warriors within us to seek out death. They are calling us to live every moment of every day as our best selves, so that should death arrive unbidden, we may face it without regret.
Kirsten Beyer
#13. Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You need to seek out others in your community who are pursuing the renovation of the heart.
Dallas Willard
#14. High school students ought to seek out campus communities where they feel not only empowered to engage their talents, but also challenged to leave their comfort zones. The ability to embrace new opportunities emerges, in part, from a willingness to take risks and to fail.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#15. An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean
#16. The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.
Chris Prentiss
#17. you want to be right about how you see the world, so you seek out information that confirms your beliefs and avoid contradictory evidence and opinions.
Anonymous
#18. It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.
Sara Sheridan
#19. The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
Eric Rohmer
#20. The smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.
Anonymous
#21. We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.
Seth Godin
#22. The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.
Warren Buffett
#23. I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Renee Olstead
#24. One cannot achieve peace without realizing justice, realize justice without seeking out the truth, seek out the truth without practicing freedom. So living and thinking free is the root of achieving peace in our world.
Sami Al-Arian
#25. They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.
Lionel Shriver
#26. To believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you take from the Old Testament that you seek out, and interpret in the ways that suit your needs best, that is hypocrisy,
V.C. Andrews
#27. For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
Mortimer Zuckerman
#28. People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
Vladimir Lenin
#29. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
Kate Morton
#30. I will seek out the best advice, and I will create a strategy and I will persuade the American people what the role of America should be. I've laid out a policy of rebuilding our military.
Jeb Bush
#31. It's fun for me to be with someone who loves reading as much as I do, because he'll give me things to read that I wouldn't normally seek out, and I think vice versa.
Zoe Kazan
#32. A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.
Colleen Houck
#33. Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.
Katherine Paterson
#34. I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.
Chuck Lorre
#35. There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.
Astra Taylor
#36. If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.
Marc Kielburger
#37. This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.
David French
#38. Al Qaeda has significance beyond its numbers, frankly. And so for us, our 24-hour-a-day objective is to seek out those al Qaeda cells. And, as we seek them out, to target them and eliminate them. And we're doing that 24 hours a day.
John R. Allen
#39. A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain away rather than seek out.
Edwin Land
#40. I've always tried to seek out environments with excitement.
Kenneth Chenault
#41. Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino
#42. Love everyone. Seek out the best that life has to offer and share it with everyone!
Jose N. Harris
#43. First of all, most traders don't have a winning strategy. Second, even among those traders who do, many don't follow their strategy. Trading puts pressure on weaker human traits and seems to seek out each individual's Achilles' heel.
Gil Blake
#44. If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.
Linda Bradford Raschke
#45. Stories are what grow from the seeds of adventure. Seek out adventures of your own and then tell some stories.
Marty Conley
#46. If you want a reliable tip, drive into a town, go to the nearest appliance store and seek out the dishwasher repair man. He spends a lot of time in restaurant kitchens and usually has strong opinions about them.
Bryan Q. Miller
#47. And so a leader of a meeting must make it a priority to seek out and uncover any important issues about which team members do not agree. And when team members don't want to engage in those discussions, the leader must force them to do so. Even when it makes him or her temporarily unpopular.
Patrick Lencioni
#48. There are few who are worthy to understand what I feel. [...] I seek out those who are of this chosen few, and I avoid the rest.
Marcel Proust
#49. She was not shy, but maybe lazy socially. Not willing to seek out situations and connections that were not already part of her routine.
Joseph Fink
#50. One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.
Anthony Head
#51. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.
Chris Hardwick
#52. I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or accolades or things like that. I try to do what's true to me, and how it all comes out is fine.
Kenny G
#53. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
#54. I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.
Augusten Burroughs
#55. In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.
Lauryn Hill
#56. We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!
Billy Graham
#57. The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits.
Adam Grant
#58. Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
Petronius
#59. If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.
Elaine Orabona Foster
#60. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
Kate Morton
#62. The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller ... Knowledge is experience.
Paracelsus
#63. Don't ever settle for something short of amazing in whatever you do in your life - there are a myriad of paths and choices to be made. Seek out the signs that speak to your heart and follow them. Then rely on God to protect you the rest of the journey.
Sieni A.M.
#64. It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.
Gina Holden
#66. When you are your own best friend, you don't endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.
Mandy Hale
#67. The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#68. Chekhov will seek out the key situation in the life of a cabman or a charwoman, and make them glow for a brief moment in the tender light of his sympathy.
Robert Wilson Lynd
#69. Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn't fall down.
Stefan Molyneux
#70. Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.
John Updike
#71. Some folks, he said, seem to want to seek out the things that destroy them. Called an achimist, a fancy word, but a true one.
Matt Bondurant
#72. O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#73. Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places.
Darren Hardy
#74. Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you
Michelle Obama
#75. It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
Saint Augustine
#76. Why would a man need both a wife and a mistress? A smart man would seek out and fall in love with a woman who can play both.
Brenda Jackson
#77. I had to learn to get comfortable in a role of ambiguity where I had to seek out advisers and learn quickly.
Brian Chesky
#78. I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.
Patricia Highsmith
#79. In its extreme form, this fear of losing one's orientation is the fear of psychosis. When persons actually are on the brink of psychosis, they often have an urgent need to seek out some contact with other human beings.
Rollo May
#80. Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.
Noreena Hertz
#81. I seek out songs that I believe in. You have to believe it in your heart first. Then the listener will believe it.
Sonny Burgess
#82. Everett realized what he was going to have to do.
He was, much against his better judgment, going to have to seek out Miss Longfellow and beg her
on bended knee and with flowers, no doubt
to come work for him.
Jen Turano
#83. I wonder whether, perhaps without realizing it, we seek out the books we need to read. Or whether books themselves, which are intelligent entities, detect their readers and catch their eye. In the end, every book is the I Ching. You pick it up, open it, and there it is, there you are.
Andres Neuman
#84. To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust
#85. There will come a time when man is no longer concerned only with survival, when he will once more be curious as to who came before him, what life was like a thousand years ago, and he will seek out answers for a hundred years or so, but humans' curiosity has always driven them to find answers.
Julie Kagawa
#86. There must be transients in the bird world too, rumple-feathered outcasts that naturally seek out each other's company in inferior and dying trees.
Barbara Kingsolver
#87. Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
William Targ
#88. I always tell my students to seek out other writers as models, and though it took me years to heed my own advice, it really was life-altering when I found writers who wrote long stories, full of back story and side plots and sub-histories.
Molly Antopol
#89. It isn't necessary to seek out adventure. Opening to what is around you will produce the most extraordinary experiences.
Edward B. Lewis
#90. My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us ... step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.
John F. Kennedy
#91. Great thinkers think inductively, that is, they create solution and then seek out the problems that solution might solve; most companies think deductively, that is, defining a problem and then investigating different solutions.
Joey Reiman
#92. Therefore, before you begin anything, seek out your allies, people who are interested in what you are doing. I'm not saying 'seek out other archers'.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds.
Sherry Turkle
#94. For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.
Steven Seagal
#95. I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.
Logan Green
#96. A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.
Franz Grillparzer
#97. I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'
Charlotte Rampling
#98. I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.
Phoebe Tonkin
#99. I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.
Ron Currie Jr.
#100. Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.
Brendan Dooling
