Purpose Quotes - Page 24

• Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose.

  Lee Strasberg

  Theatre, Acting

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• My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Creating, Goes On

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• Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even get the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth... we choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

  Richard Bach

  Fighting, Ideas, Perfection

  Richard Bach (2014). “Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• The mind is incredible. Once you've gained mastery over it, channelling its powers positively, for your purpose you can do anything.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspiring, Achievement, Mind

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Thinking, People

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• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

  Peter Brook

  Law, Community, Theatre

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• Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were a torch, to those who follow

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Positive, Giving

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Planning, Sensible, Household

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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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• The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

  George F. Kennan

  Defense, Nuclear, Bombs

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• The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  War, Goal, Essentials

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• I had no special training at all; I am completely self-taught. I don’t fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is – someone who designs projects to make people happy. That’s his purpose.

  Toru Iwatani

  Art, Strong, Self

  "Toru Iwatani, 1986 PacMan Designer". Interview with Susan Lammers, programmersatwork.wordpress.com. 1986.

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• I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Book, Games, Chess

  José Raúl Capablanca (1920). “My Chess Career”

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• When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Focus, Balance

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

  Ben Hunt

  Beautiful, Art, Communication

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• It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Maturity, Hands, Growth

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Lying, Suffering

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Two, Evil

  Third Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 23 September 2003, New York, NY

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• The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

  Samuel Johnson

  Reading, Writing, Criticism

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.569

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• The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Men, Play

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.517, University of Alabama Press

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• Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Dark, Blessing

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• I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trying

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• The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

  David Viscott

  Life, Giving, Meaning Of Life

  David Viscott (2003). “Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

  Richard Halverson

  Christian, Fashion, Religion

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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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