Purpose Quotes
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Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
Norton Juster
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Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.
Brandon Marshall
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The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... which was of more importance than our original purpose.
Cesar Milstein
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An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day.
Stephen Covey
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It's increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose - or of a moral language - within government, media or business, could become one of the most dangerous own goals for capitalism and for freedom.
Elisabeth Murdoch
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
Sherman Alexie
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Your only purpose is to be yourself, otherwise you deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani
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The purpose of fiction is not to make people seem nice. What makes anyone think people are nice? Look around you!
Elizabeth Strout
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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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The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
Anthony Robbins
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We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.
Ray Bradbury
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So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York
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We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli