Purpose Quotes
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Art without color would lose much of its purpose.
Andrew Loomis -
Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make in Chicaho musical has much purpose.
Eddie George
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it…. I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill….
Thomas A. Edison -
... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.
Eugene Wigner -
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.
Molly Ivins -
Classic grooming behavior, Dr. Walid told me later, something our fellow primates indulge in to maintain troop cohesion. Dr. Walid said human beings use language for the same purpose—which is why you find yourself talking total bollocks to people you meet at a bus stop and then wonder what the fuck did I do that for?
Ben Aaronovitch -
If any organization was built for a purpose and any organization is composed of more than one person, then we must conclude that the purpose of the organization requires the synchronized efforts of more than one person.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
Let light and love and power and death fulfil the purpose of the Coming One.
Alice Bailey
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I really try to be aware of the purpose of each song. There are songs on my record that I want people to have sex to, and songs people can listen to when they're pissed off.
Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers -
Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.
Eda LeShan -
What we're trying to do is have all of the mass and volume be used for the purpose it is to be used for, which is to power the device.
Angela Belcher -
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
Wu Guanzhong -
Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani -
I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.
Ellen DeGeneres
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My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.
William Soutar -
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
John Tillotson -
Scouting is a Game with a Purpose
William Hillcourt -
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.
Ed Catmull -
The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
Thomas Kinkade -
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
William Arthur Ward -
Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.
Helen Keller -
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Seneca the Younger -
I'm just an animal guy. I feel like every creature has some purpose, whether I know it or not.
Brian DeGraw