Purpose Quotes
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The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible.
Auguste Renoir
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If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be
Kai Greene
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What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.
Ernst von Glasersfeld
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Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.
Brian Tracy
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin
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The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
Alan Mulally
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
Stephen Covey
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
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We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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To the game code, the world is still just a tile map, but for rendering, each map was exported as a general-purpose 3D model, and the artists could then go through it and spend the polygons any way they liked, without the limits of line-of-constant-z software rasterization that we lived with on the mobile phones.
John Carmack
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There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.
John Calvin
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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
Peter Ackroyd
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The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.
Charles Dickens
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
Edmund Clowney
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“I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.”
Colin Bateman
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What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?
Alice Steinbach
