Purpose Quotes - Page 40

• A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Character, Successful, Issues

  S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Want, Talent

  4 Copy quote

• [Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on.

  Paul Lockhart

  Teacher, Math, Nomenclature

  4 Copy quote

• A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

  Jim Rohn

  Memories, Character, Color

  6 Copy quote

• This sacrifice of a pawn nowadays is only played for drawing purposes. Especially against the very strongest masters it has proved to be quite useful to this end.

  Jan Hein Donner

  Sacrifice, Drawing, Chess

  4 Copy quote

• You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sleep, Evil, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

  P. Chidambaram

  Criticism, Welcome, Made

  "A Conversation With: P. Chidambaram". Interview with Jim Yardley, india.blogs.nytimes.com. October 8, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Struggle, Exhausted, Horrible

  1908 Of the final moments of the 1908 Olympic marathon, in which the Italian runner Dorando Pietri had to be helped over the finishing line and was thus disqualified. Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

  Edward L. Morse

  Friends, Coffee, Wine

  14 Copy quote

• [...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Children

  7 Copy quote

• The Universe knows all things and is responding to the vibration that you are sending. When you are sending your vibration on purpose, you are orchestrating what the Universe is aligning for you.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Vibrations, Responding

  10 Copy quote

• We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Perfect

  135 Copy quote

• Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society

  Dave Hampton

  Jobs, Skills, Unity

  4 Copy quote

• That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

  Colleen McCullough

  Breathing Space, Giving, Age

  Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.601, Head of Zeus

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Motivation, Struggle

  5 Copy quote

• The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Thinking, Enemy

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Words”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Morning, Light, Darkness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.37, Beacon Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Handy

  Community, Pieces, Good Business

  61 Copy quote

• Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stars, Memories, Children

  24 Copy quote

• Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.

  Myles Munroe

  Moving, Tools, Maximizing

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Maximizing Your Potential Expanded (Large Print 16pt)”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Inspire, Illusion

  Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Want, Wonderful

  113 Copy quote

• Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Able, Initiative, Individual

  38 Copy quote

• When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Unity, Together, Way

  204 Copy quote

• Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Mean

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source