Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

I have used the philosophers' ideas for my own private literary purposes, but I don't think that I'm a thinker. I suppose that my thinking has been done for me by Berkeley, by Hume, by Schopenhauer, by Mauthner perhaps.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

I know I want to help people and inspire people. That's my purpose in life.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

I know very well about the necessary level of reserves of the Central Bank as well as the purpose.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

I'm glad to be a role model, but beyond that I'm a flawed human being, someone who continues to deal with my body image and what my purpose is on the planet.

I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

I mean to suggest that without a transcendent and honorable purpose, schooling must reach its finish, and the sooner we are done with it, the better.

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I don't always like to listen to it. It's like living in a house where everything's painted red.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for a purpose and a reason, and that purpose or reason may not be obvious to the person that has the disease. Nevertheless, there is something going on and it's not always easy to find that out.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

Immigration law doesn`t exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out. It exists to protect all aspects of American life, the work site, the welfare office, the education system, and everything else. That is why immigration limits are established in the first place. If we only enforce the laws against crime, then we have an open border to the entire world. We will enforce all of our immigration laws!

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

I'm not any happier anywhere than when I'm in the studio. I'm over the moon about it. It keeps me young, it keeps me feeling like I have some purpose.

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

I'm so thankful that I have gotten the opportunity to fulfill my life purpose of staying inside on tumblr all day.

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

I'm very careful with what I let my ear gate hear on my own. I don't care if I go out and something is playing that I wouldn't put on myself, that doesn't bother me but when I feed off and get nourishment from music, it's through things that are encouraging and lift me up, things that have integrity and purpose and that's what Christian Worship Music is all about.

I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.

... in all cases of monstrosity at birth anaesthetics should be applied by doctors publicly appointed for that purpose... Every successive year would see fewer of the unfit born, and finally none. But, it may be urged, this is legalized infanticide. Assuredly it is; and it is urgently needed.

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.