Purpose Quotes - Page 16

• The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

  Andy Stern

  Thinking, Focus, Unions

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Stories, Letters

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• While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

  Peter McWilliams

  Goal, Rehabilitation, Circumstances

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Mean, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.

  Louis Berkhof

  Perfection, Promise

  Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.

  Norman Rockwell

  Thinking, America, Typical

  "Fodor's New England". Book by Debbie Harmsen, p. 194, 2008.

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• When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to us. Even something as simple as their walking into a room or whispering something to someone else can be conjured up in our minds, to look to us as if they're doing it on purpose to irritate us -as if they're involved in some diabolical plot to hurt us further. What they may be doing may have no connection to their past actions that hurt us in the first place but our resentful feelings against them can often taint our perception of what's really taking place.

  Cindy Wright

  Hurt, Past, Simple

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• The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.

  Sergio Zyman

  People, Marketing, Reason

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• Sex appeal is not on purpose.

  Heather Locklear

  Sex, Appeals, Sex Appeal

  "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cost, Care, Firsts

  "Mrs. Clinton Unveils Her New Socialist Health Care Program". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 17, 2007.

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• You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Should, Areas

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• The word "veganism" denotes a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude - as far as is possible and practical - all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.

  Donald Watson

  Philosophy, Animal, Practice

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• One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

  Helen Lynd

  Pride, Frustration, Bears

  Helen Merrell Lynd (2013). “On Shame And The Search For Identity”, p.255, Routledge

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• Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Missions, Given

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• It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

  Hugo Black

  Men, Rights, Bills

  "The Bill of Rights,"NewYork University Law Review, Apr. 1960

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• Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread

  Alain de Botton

  Mean, Demand, May

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• He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

  George Eliot

  Appreciation, Men, Careers

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.107, Penguin

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• I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear makeup sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter. I don't really have that sort of strong gender identity-I identify as what I am. The fact that people are using it for creative or marketing purposes, it's just kind of like having a skill and using it to earn money.

  Andrej Pejic

  Strong, Makeup, Boys

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• I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

  Brendan Fraser

  Appreciate, Practicals, Ifs

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

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Purpose Of Art, Art Is

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• For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Integrity, Humble, White

  "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, together with his complete poems and speeches edited by Mrs John Boyle O'Reilly" by James Jeffrey Roche, New York, (p. 195), 1891.

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• I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  William Allingham

  Men, Feelings, Energy

  William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press

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• I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seems careless of having anything to do with — they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I shoud mention them in my writings & I find more pleasure in wandering the fields then in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible of everything but toiling & talking of it & that to no purpose.

  John Clare

  Writing, Men, Talking

  "Letters".

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• Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

  James O. Fraser

  Cutting, Knives, Trying

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