Quotes About Purposeful

Developers who don't actively think about their code are programming by coincidence—the code might work, but there's no particular reason why.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

If the concept that technologies have biases were to become common knowledge, we could implement them consciously and purposefully. If we don't bring this concept into general awareness, our technologies and their effects will continue to threaten and confound us.

I want to do things that will change someone's life, not something they'll forget about tomorrow.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Ney has always been thorough. He is someone who doesn't do things by halves. It shows on the field. When he takes the ball he wants to be decisive.

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.

If you seek tranquillity, do less." Or (more accurately) do what's essential—what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better.

In short, I could accept that Jesus saw his own death the way that Tom suggests only if there were very strong historical evidence for it. I find it more historically persuasive, and religiously compelling, to see the purposeful understanding of Jesus' death as post-Easter interpretations, and as history metaphorized, not history remembered.

We don't accidentally drift into holiness; rather we mature gradually and purposefully, one choice at a time.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.

I'd known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny—and this was, of course, a lie.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.

And he's saying, "Alex, I have come to the conclusion that productivity is the act of bringing a company closer to its goal. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. Every action that does not bring a company closer to its goal is not productive.

Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.