Quest Quotations

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.

Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.

America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.

I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.

I'm on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is 'the best' changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.

I think the most important reason for our success is that very early in our quest into globalisation, we invested in people - and we have done that consistently and particularly in the service business.

When I was very little, I was into Michael Jackson. At six or seven, it was Madonna, but she's not what she used to be. I've been into everything from Edith Piaf to Joe Strummer to the Velvet Underground to Suicide to A Tribe Called Quest to African music.

We will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play 'World of Warcraft' with your son. But you're actually interacting with each other. You're solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you're solving them. You're posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You're on a quest to gain certain capabilities.

Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundation of wealth-creation.

When you've been knocked down quite a few times in your quest for success and you've still gotten up and kept pursuing it, I think you have a certain humility about you.

We bought a small house in Boston and we got it set up and had everything perfectly arranged until we realized we really only had one seat in the house that had sufficient light for reading and every night there was a battle of who could race to this chair faster with a reading book and I was always losing being the smallest. So we really started a quest to look for an ultimate reading light.

This Quest represents the largest mid-life investment in Nissan's history. We realized the styling of the Quest was polarizing for some owners.

Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

Let Project Quest get back to work and train the citizens of San Antonio.

Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man

Last year was a clear indication of where the consumer is heading for 2006. Today's consumer enjoys splurging on higher-end products now and then, but their quest for value still remains.

Should we give away refrigerators? Sure. Trips? Yeah. Fur coats? Who cares. But when we turn the quest for medical care into Queen for a Day, we have gone too far -- ethically. A show that gives out good medicine as a prize is immoral.

More and more marketers are on a quest to prove that marketing is more than advertising. Senior management has often grown up with traditional communications and has to be shown the value of promotion and integrated marketing.

Popularity hasn't translated to revenue quite yet. The quest for the perfect ad model is still in progress.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly going to be on a quest to get familiar.

Cendant was the unrecognized harbinger of financial disasters to come. It was the harbinger in the late 1990s of how the quest for higher stock prices led managers astray.

I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.

If their girls go 9.9, and she does as good as better, she should get the same or better score. That will help her in the all-around and in her quest to be all-American again.

He was attacked and hailed in his quest to ensure that all Americans received equal treatment. I defy those feigning insult to cite one example of Judge Roberts not supporting those ideals.

Having played in so many different countries, I consider it a real honor to represent our nation in any way. So I'm real excited to work with such talented young ladies in a quest for gold. I have a deep-rooted respect for the winning tradition USA basketball has and want to see that continue.

Her history and her quest for stardom will make a compelling television series: she is a musician, a young woman, and, most important, a human being. She is a young woman who falls in love, has her heart broken, worries about her looks, doesn't always listen to her mother, and hasn't spoken to her father in years.

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

He's been an awesome help, ... He'll help get the Web Quest page up on the web.

I always did healthy things. I didn't sit around in nightclubs. Sure, I had my fair share of fun, but no one could ever accuse me of being a dilettante and doing nothing. I was always on this unbelievable quest to go and do.

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Jack is a good person, who in his quest to be successful, lost sight of the rules.

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband.

It begins with a little quest and turns into this giant learning experience, what I consider this ongoing tragedy in America -- terror perpetrated on Americans by Americans,

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

State-of-the-art laboratories are essential in our quest to recruit internationally known biomedical scientists and is key to our staying competitive as an academic health sciences center.

Staples Invention Quest gives hope to the everyday inventor and helps them understand the steps it takes to bring new product ideas to life. I was amazed and inspired by Sarah's SpindleRack along with the other unique ideas that everyone had.

Marc did a great job in qualifying. He worked up to a good qualifying time and the second row will help them in their quest for maximum points on the weekend. Paul put the car solidly on the front row. He and Jan really get down to business. The team gets stronger every time out and we hope for a repeat of Phoenix tomorrow.

I was on a quest to try and find answers and bring some dignity to this individual who didn't exist other than in stories for 57 years. After 57 years, it was the least we could do.

We chose to record The Star-Spangled Banner to show our solidarity with the undocumented immigrants and their quest for basic civil rights, as well as to say thank you for their contribution to our comfort and our dreams.

We are back on track in our quest to drastically change the face of public housing in Central Louisiana.

We realize it's going to be even harder to win because everyone out there wants to beat us. The way I look at it, any team can beat us and anything can happen out there, so the team that we face each week is our biggest threat. Our quest is to repeat as champions. To do that, we have to take it one game at a time and continue to work hard.

We nearly met all of our goals this season. I think we moved another step ahead in our quest for building a championship level team.

Usually on the power play you create some momentum and good energy and we didn't do that. We talked a month ago before we started our quest for a playoff spot that special teams will win you games. We have to get back to basics on the power play.

The quest for growth is forcing vendors to test the limits of PC price elasticity. The whole dynamic is compounded by the fact that buyers have increasingly come to expect sharp price declines.

When the pair of buildings are seen together, with the plaza, it's going to become one of the favorite places in the art world, certainly a favorite in Texas. A quest of long duration is finally coming to a stage of fruition. ... Something extraordinary has been achieved after a long struggle.

We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.

There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.

When Quest was introduced, it redefined the segment with its emphasis on combining car-like performance, innovative style, sporty appearance and exceptional practicality and versatility. The enhancements for 2007, which represent one of the largest mid-cycle investments in Nissan history, make the Quest more flexible and accommodating than ever -- keeping pace with the evolving needs and desires of minivan users.

There has been a never ending quest for the next Michael Jordan ever since Jordan came along. The fact is there isn't another Michael Jordan out there. But the companies are hoping they find that in James. Kobe Bryant may be the best player in the NBA, but he's shown from the standpoint of selling shoes and apparel that he's not in same league as Michael Jordan.

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

The quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail. But hope remains, if friends stay true.

The Quest is a competitive minivan that's sensibly priced. Reliability has been poor, but crash-test results are impressive.

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.

Exploration really is the essence of the human spirit, and to pause, to falter, to turn our back on the quest for knowledge, is to perish.

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs. I know from my buddy back home. He's 42 and he's been a Cubs fan all his life. He feels like he's going to have a coronary attack every time we lose. Cubs fans love this team. They're not front-runners. And now that the White Sox have won the World Series, the quest to win a championship is on the tip of (Cubs fans') brains.

Fans have grown weary of the complacency that surrounded the Cubs for all these years. Cubs fans love this team. ... Now with the White Sox having won the World Series, their quest for this team to win the championship is on the tip of their brain.

Tony is just a tough kid who has dedicated himself to the sport. He's been very businesslike this year in his quest to be a state champion.

We are very pleased to have Quest Diagnostics participate in National Preferred Provider Network (NPPN). This expanded relationship is a huge benefit to our NPPN membership and supports our commitment to help reduce healthcare costs for all of our customers. Implementation was completed in January.

Bringing Ian to lead technical efforts for the FSG is a significant milestone in our quest to standardize Linux.

A treasure beyond price for fans of both the classic Hammett novel and the three (that's right, three) film versions of the doomed quest for a black bird. An incredible amalgam of photos, memos, letters, reviews, whatever, this will make fans of the book or the film gasp as one unexpected delight succeeds another. With this book, wonders really do never cease.

Another focus of the 2007 Quest redesign has been in the areas of quality, both manufacturing and perceived quality.

The result of the team's efforts is a new Quest that is not only well-built, but looks and feels like a quality vehicle the moment you approach it or open a door.

There's something very weird and abnormal about my particular quest to do stand-up; it's very isolating and self-important.

The violence does not demonstrate that the quest for peace has gone too far -- but that it has not gone far enough. And it points not to the failure of negotiations -- but to the futility of violence and force.

These stamps herald the struggle of men, women and children in the quest for equality, ... They are a fitting reminder that the work yet to be done must be built upon the contributions made by millions to bring our country to a better place.

The steady increase in the international liquidity position indicates that the Bank is not just buying foreign exchange as quickly as it can, but also that at the same time it continues to be mindful of its responsibility not to upset the markets in their quest to accumulate foreign exchange.

The silent, lethal creep of apostasy began uneventfully. His quest for holiness had morphed into a mere pursuit of happiness. He never discerned it, nor would anyone else. He was a materialist now - just one of the well-respected selectmen who quelled controversy at the expense of progress.....

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.

Sometimes less is more. Our quest for more, then, keeps us from it.

Something happened when she began the quest that became Innocence Lost . She got all of those people out of jail and that led her to this journey into the justice system.

One gentleman said it was his quest to have gooseberry pie at RAGBRAI. He said he didn't get any the other year until he was getting on the bus.

Any new road has to be beneficial to the forest ecosystem rather than providing access to a stand of forest to be cut. The other values of the forest must balance against the quest to log all areas.

You must be willing to invest time in your quest to go from where you are now to a living a champion life full of abundance.

This is an important breakthrough in the quest to answer the question, 'are we alone'?

This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.

This certified 80 PLUS ATX reference design demonstrates our commitment to delivering leading-edge power-efficient solutions to assist power supply designers in their quest to develop highly efficient power supplies. We have worked closely with industry standards organizations and our customers worldwide to develop this economical 80 PLUS compliant power solution.

A lot of these athletes, their objective is to sustain their quest for the next Olympics, not having to work at a job that distracts them, ... Most of them will gladly do it on six-figure deals. Five-figure deals are what a lot of these athletes look for.

They had a great look. When you can steal one like this in the quest for a championship, that's huge. If you're going to win (the league title), it has to come through here.

This plan, together with the restructuring agreement with the province, represents a significant step forward in our quest for a consensual restructuring and a positive outcome.

This is the next step in our quest for a championship,

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blurry. My rap career wasn't a hoax, but it was absolutely intended to be a joke. The problem was that I really was on a quest to somehow be a Caucasian Ol' Dirty Bastard.

As with all investigations, I shall go where the evidence leads. Our quest won't be distracted or diverted and if there's evidence of wrongdoing, it will be highlighted.

It's exciting to see that educators are actually helping a bigger segment of a bigger population learn at the college level, We cannot rest in our quest to expand these opportunities until students ... are equitably represented.

It seems that the emphasis on expanding distribution outweighs the quest for positive operating leverage in the near term.