Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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!

Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?

In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth.

In as much as Christ's mission was to bring all things into submission to God, and to restore not only humanity, but also the whole creation to its proper purposes, to make straight what is crooked, and to redeem both humanity and the creation from the curse of sin, then herein can be found the possibility for a full and wholesome realization of human artistic activity.

In a world where for pedagogic and other purposes a very large number of economists is required, an arrangement which discourages many of them from