Will Compton Quotes

I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.

Will Compton

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• 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

• Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • College
  • Investment
  • Companies

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• 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 preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Years
  • Evolution
  • Example

• None of us is designed for the role we must assume in a revolutionary society, although Cubans had the privilege of Jose Marti's example.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Society
  • Example
  • Privilege

• We should not televise trials. There's only one purpose for a criminal trial. It's to determine whether or not the defendant committed the crime. Anything that interferes or has the potential of interfering with that should automatically be prohibited.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Purpose
  • Potential
  • Trials

• The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Great
  • Man
  • Space

• We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Hope
  • Purpose
  • Everything

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• Every outer purpose is doomed to 'fail' sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Law
  • Purpose

• The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Purpose

• The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Fear
  • Purpose
  • Failure

• I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • Purpose
  • Star

• 'Magneto' believes that 'Cyclops' and 'Wolverine' both serve a good purpose. But he believes the help they provide only goes so far.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Good
  • Help
  • Purpose

• There are two main organizations that rate charities. They look at their finances and decide whether they are giving enough to the causes they claim to focus on. Something like 80 or 90% of their money actually goes to a charitable purpose.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Focus

• It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Process
  • Sacrifice

• So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • People
  • Healthy Life
  • Get Sick

• Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

  

  Faina Ranevskaya
  • Health

• Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in a world of large-scale international trade and investment, a world destroyed by nationalism.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • World
  • Self-Sufficient
  • Grandfathers

• I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.

  

  Will Compton
  • Purpose
  • Example
  • Companies