Purpose Quotes - Page 65

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.

I am in my life for a purpose. There is no place to rush to. I am safe. It's all ok.

Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

In proportion as our cares are employed upon the future, they are abstracted from the present, from the only time which we can call our own, and of which, if we neglect the apparent duties to make provision against visionary attacks, we shall certainly counteract our own purpose.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

Before you can come to know your purpose, you must come to know yourself.

God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and then do it for all we're worth for the rest of our lives. Ask God to show you your purpose. He will answer.

The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

For official purposes, these children do not exist.

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.