Purpose Quotes - Page 33

• It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

  Peter Greenaway

  Serving

  Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You will be surprised to learn how some very knowing people have misunderstood Plotto. On glancing at it, some of the intelligentia have jumped at the false conclusion, that Plotto is a dictionary of situations, a mechanism that yields a cut and dried plot by the mere use of a thumb index. Plotto, to the contrary, merely suggests the situations for the plot, explains what is to be done through Purpose and Obstacle and even offers suggestions as to the way in which it should be done.

  William Wallace Cook

  Cutting, Yield, Knowing

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• The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.

  Kukai

  Confused, Lying, Long

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• The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits!

  Yukito Kishiro

  Battle, Height, Limits

  "Battle Angel Alita, Volume 8: Fallen Angel". Manga series by Yukito Kishiro, September 1, 1994.

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• There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Needs, Cost

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• We have to steer our true life’s course. Whatever your calling is in life! The whole purpose of being here is to figure out what that is as soon as possible, so you go about the business of being on track, of not being owned by what your mother said, what society said, whatever people think a woman is supposed to be when you can exceed other people’s expectations and be defined by your own!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mother, Thinking, Expectations

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• Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.

  Steve Denning

  Sight, Stories, Use

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• All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

  Napoleon Hill

  Achievement, Desire, Burning

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.48, Penguin

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• What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Creative, Spirit

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• Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Patterns, Causes

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear

  Oprah Winfrey

  Way, Clear

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• When your life is on course with it’s purpose, you are your most powerful.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Life Is, Courses

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.218, Macmillan

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• Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Goal, Needs

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won’t even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.

  Bob Proctor

  Money, Ideas, Trying

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

  Khalil

  Teaching, Men, Sorrow

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• When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.

  Carl Jung

  Hands, Goal

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• I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is
  mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering
  what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I’ll give you
  a hint... it has to do with creating and sharing.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Order, Creating

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• God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Knowing, May, God Is In Control

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. All business activities must be focused on this central purpose.

  Brian Tracy

  Customers, Activity, Focused

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• Semi-automatic s have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in a while, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use-their only other use-is to kill people.

  Stephen King

  Fire, Two, People

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• The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Memorial, Expansion, United States

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• It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

  Erwin McManus

  Struggle, Endure, Convinced

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.109, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rich, Enough, Poorest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• Purpose is stronger than object.

  Jim Rohn

  Stronger, Objects

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• We can only feel happy and fulfilled if we're engaged in our (soul's) purpose.

  Doreen Virtue

  Soul, Feels, Fulfilled

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