Purpose Quotes - Page 90

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

When God gives us a talent it is our responsibility to hone it for His purpose and glory

The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

To me, the best purpose of an interview would be to illuminate some things about how somebody works for the benefit of somebody else who wants to do those things. And that's not where most interviews go at all, so to me, they seem like strange exercises in small talk and wasted air.

It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.

I feel like I am always searching for my purpose. I'm always wondering what that is.