Purpose Quotes - Page 37

• In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Control Of Your Life, Order, Productive

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

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• The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this.
  In other words, we are here to love.

  Sara Wiseman

  Soul, Growth, Life Is

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• The purpose of a headline is to pick out people you can interest. You wish to talk to someone in a crowd. So the first thing you say is, "hey there, Bill Jones" to get the right persons attention.so it is in n advertisement

  Claude C. Hopkins

  People, Wish, Bills

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• The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Sadness, Reality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, New Directions Publishing

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• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  Laini Taylor

  Ocean, Years, Towers

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• In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly speaking there is no such thing as applied science, for, the moment the attempt is made to apply, science passes into the realm of art.

  Joseph William Mellor

  Art, Law, Chemistry

  Joseph William Mellor (1946). “A Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry”

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• Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

  Bill Watterson

  Men, Bored, Doe

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• The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

  Rollo May

  People, Existential, Psychotherapy

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness.'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

  Ray Romano

  Attitude, Oysters, Identity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.

  T.L. Osborn

  Soul, Spirit, Holy

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• Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

  Ricardo Semler

  People, Demand, Recognition

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• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Tuning, Chess, Pawns

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Withal I did infer your lineaments,
  Being the right idea of your father,
  Both in your form and nobleness of mind;
  Laid open all your victories in Scotland,
  Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,
  Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;
  Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose
  Untouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.

  William Shakespeare

  Father, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.152, Cambridge University Press

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• [He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.

  Daniel Topolski

  War, Athlete, Fighting

  Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House

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• Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.

  Mark Van Doren

  Beautiful, Wind, Water

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• We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

  Seth Godin

  Entrepreneur, Mediocre

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• My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Moving, Creativity, Reflection

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• The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent.

  Joan Blades

  Mother, Parent, Needs

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• When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.

  Shane Harper

  Life, Inspiring, People

  "God’s Not Dead". Interview with Daniaja Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Stage charm guarantees in advance an actor's hold on the audience, it helps him to carry over to large numbers of people his creative purposes. It enhances his roles and his art. Yet it is of utmost importance that he use this precious gift with prudence, wisdom, and modesty. It is a great shame when he does not realize this and goes on to exploit, to play on his ability to charm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Art, Play, Numbers

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building A Character”, p.272, Routledge

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.

  John Glenn

  Men, Space, People

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