Purpose Quotes - Page 83

Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

To be honest, I am not especially pleased to be slotted primarily as a 'woman filmmaker', but it's okay with me. Plus, I see the relevance and the strength of having a distinctive subject and drift for promotional purposes

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose. That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful. But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we feel as when we are in an ancient armoury where the weapons are of gigantic size; and as we look at them we marvel what manner of man he was who could use as a weapon what we can scarcely lift as a burden.

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!

When I go to a music concert, I don't say, "My purpose is to get to the end and enjoy the finale." If that were the purpose, everybody would write finales and nothing more. The purpose of the concert is to enjoy each note as you go along.

Everything in the universe has a purpose.

If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.

Jesus' purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.