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Don't Let the Elusive Present Moment Get Used Up by Thoughts that Aren't in the Here & Now -- Wayne Dyer
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. -- Mick Jagger
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. -- John Buchan
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. -- Earl Nightingale
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding. -- Alberto Salazar
One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full. -- Muriel Spark
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. -- Willa Cather
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. -- Albert Camus
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. -- Joni Mitchell
Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive. -- Steven Spielberg
Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. -- J. Patrick Lewis
Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country. -- Hun Sen
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. -- Jan Tschichold
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. -- Andrew Bird
Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive. -- Ze Frank
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans. -- John Grogan
I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken. -- Adele
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred -- Mark Nepo
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. -- Scott Adams
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. -- Camille Paglia
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' -- Nathan Myhrvold
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. -- Beverly Jones
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. -- Beverly Jones
Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart. -- Eknath Easwaran
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact. -- Patrick Warburton
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life. -- Meghan Daum
If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter. -- Cliff Richard
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track. -- Ben Marcus
The trouble is now, with rock'n'roll and stuff, it gets so big that it loses what once upon a time was a magnificent thing, where it was special and quite elusive and occasionally a little sinister and it had its own world nobody could get in. -- Robert Plant
Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught. -- Edmund White
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around. -- Dani Shapiro
There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route. -- Rose George
We've forgotten how to remember, and just as importantly, we've forgotten how to pay attention. So, instead of using your smartphone to jot down crucial notes, or Googling an elusive fact, use every opportunity to practice your memory skills. Memory is a muscle, to be exercised and improved. -- Joshua Foer
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode. -- William Styron
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. -- Northrop Frye
Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open. -- Roger Ebert
I wanted to find something I was passionate about, something with the possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job. -- Dawn Olivieri
The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try. -- Ben Affleck
There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar, favorite food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts. -- Edith Schaeffer
Everything in life is elusive. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive... -- William Styron
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge. -- Mirra Komarovsky
What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity? -- David Brin
I am crying over the elusive nature of love. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. -- Jerry Spinelli
Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. -- Jennifer Senior
Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it. -- Daniel Gillies
One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding. -- E. M. Forster
Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness! -- Elizabeth Bibesco
the rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ... -- Alice Dunbar Nelson
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Happiness can never be captured and is only elusive when it is chased after -- Judy Azar LeBlanc
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe. -- Carl Sandburg
Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it. -- W. P. Kinsella
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. -- Ben Marcus
I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew? -- Richelle E. Goodrich
The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power. -- Umberto Eco
Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult. -- Hippocrates
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. -- Julie Walters
This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys. -- Tom Watson
Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. -- Frederick Leboyer
In Henry they had a forward so elusive that he was almost unplayable at his peak -- Gary Neville
All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive. -- Stedman Graham
I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions. -- Hedi Slimane
I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken. -- Stevie Jackson
Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. -- Tom Hiddleston
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me. -- Paul Gauguin
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. -- Janet Evanovich
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths. -- Gelett Burgess
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom. -- Mirra Komarovsky
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most. -- Brandon Mull
If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize. -- Bethenny Frankel
It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. -- Lisa Kleypas
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large. -- David Letterman
Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently. -- Dave Liniger
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive -- Les Paul
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. -- Donald Barthelme
I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Besides, I've been feeling a little blue â?? just a pale, elusive azure. It isn't serious enough for anything darker. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear. -- Andrew Bernstein
Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear. -- Andrew Bernstein
Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you. -- Jeff Bezos
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. -- Richard Hofstadter
Love is when there is no denying "it"...that magical, elusive feeling that really seizes us and takes us from the inside. -- Stephanie Ellis
If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best. -- Joan Z. Borysenko
The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering. -- Douglas MacArthur
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Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq. -- Tom Lantos
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances. -- Francis Ponge
If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive. -- Bill Bailey
Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure. -- Eve Ensler
It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence. -- Yi-Fu Tuan
Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been. -- Lukas Foss
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing. -- Paul Davies
As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. -- William Baziotes
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort. -- Philip Yancey
Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form. -- Deborah Ann Woll
To me, dance is so ethereal and elusive, so much of an illusion. After a performance, that's it. With vocals and music, you have good recordings. -- Jamie Wyeth
There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now. -- Brian Kenny
I believe in good. It is an ephemeral and elusive quality. It is the center of my beliefs, but it cannot be strengthened by talking about it. -- Edward Teller
Such elusive puzzles recall the historian's basic dilemma: the absence of evidence does not always signify evidence of absence. In the end, we will likely never know. -- Howard Markel
Greatness is defined by public recognition of the value of ones contributions to society, and therefore, true greatness is a bit more elusive to obtain than success. -- Ken Poirot
I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry. -- Quentin S. Crisp
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive. -- Jack W. Szostak
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams. -- Bayard Taylor
The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. -- Lukas Foss
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's work remains elusive. -- Manohla Dargis
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond. -- Georges Bataille
Emma was happy. She realized that happiness is something that springs from the generous treatment of others, and that until one makes that connection, happiness may prove elusive. -- Alexander McCall Smith
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site. -- Martin Filler
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data. -- R. D. Laing
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time. -- Suzanne Vega
If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him. -- David Jeremiah

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