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Quotes About Purposeful

a technique known to psychologists studying problem solving as "generate and test." To solve a problem, all the possible solutions are generated and then tested to see if they offer a solution. It's a form of trial and error, but not as random; it's guided and purposeful.
~ Leander Kahney
People have always asked whether evolution is constantly driving onwards and upwards. Is there always going to be improvement? The answer is no: evolution is a progression of form and function, but it is not purposeful.
~ Sydney Brenner
Busy people are never busybodies.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
I want all of our talk to be redemptively constructive, from the most mundane details to the huge life decisions.
~ Timothy S. Lane
Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.
~ Dallas Willard
The "occasionally remarkable" moments shouldn't be left to chance! They should be planned for, invested in.
~ Chip Heath
defining moments can be consciously created. You can be the architect of moments that matter.
~ Chip Heath
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
~ Chip Kidd
you are only as interesting as you are useful to someone
~ Christina Baker Kline
Reza implemented an impressive number of reforms that were designed to turn the cracked empire he had inherited into a purposeful nation state. But he ended up, like so many of his fellow dictators, alone in his citadel. And much of the goods he did was nullified by the way he did it.
~ Christopher De Bellaigue
We abolished every order blank and every form of statistics that did not directly aid in the production of a car. We had been collecting tons of statistics because they were interesting. But statistics will not construct automobiles—so out they went.
~ Henry Ford
When I talk, it's meaningful. It's useful. I don't just talk to talk.
~ Jeff Green
I try to be useful.
~ Boban Marjanovic
It offends me when people do useless work.
~ Esther Dyson
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect.
~ Masayoshi Son
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
~ Jesse Kellerman
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter.
~ Dean Kamen
Dreams resound sometimes with footsteps, mindless, purposeful, like hers; dreams lend us a gait lighter than winged flight, a step able to combine the statue's weight of inorganic marble with the subaqueous freedom of a deep-sea diver.
~ Jean Cocteau
Tu eÈ™ti pentru mine relaÈ›ia necesar?. ToÈ›i ceilalÈ›i sunt întâmpl?tori.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.
~ Joan Cusack
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
~ Hill Harper
I'm very goal oriented.
~ David Schwimmer
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
~ Alan Ball
I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
~ Ewan McGregor