Jens Lekman Quotes

I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

Jens Lekman

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• From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
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• I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Think
  • Movies
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• With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Passion
  • Purpose
  • Poetry

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• The purpose of all wars, is peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Peace
  • Purpose
  • Wars

• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Kind
  • Purpose
  • Lie

• I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Best
  • Purpose
  • Picture

• Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • Parents
  • Purpose

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Purpose
  • Achievement

• You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Same

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Purpose
  • Study
  • Years

• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Purpose

• In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Long
  • High
  • Space

• I think one purpose is very clear among corporations and business leaders: make profits, deliver high return for stockholders, conquer markets, service consumers and create jobs. But in today's world, demands from corporations and leaders are much more than that. We need to understand what people really want at the very end.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

  

  George Will
  • Education
  • Purpose
  • Politics

• I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.'No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas.

  

  C. Douglas Payne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death
  • Die
  • Enemy

• Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Time
  • Stop

• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Desire

• I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Purpose