Quotes About Purposeful

There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

I'm a pragmatist, and I don't like gratuitous fashion - in fact, there's not that much gratuitous anything in my life.

love is always a choice. That's what makes it meaningful.

Screentime that is not purposeful tends to be a waste of time and a negative influence.

I simply go about my passage swiftly and silently, with a certain deliberate, dark efficiency.

I think my roles have been wonderfully varied. Not one has been racially stereotypical, and I have purposely chosen them like that.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

the trick to maximizing your talents and opportunities is not becoming a less thoughtful and giving person, but rather being purposeful and intentional about your choices while also addressing the behaviors that keep you stuck.

Memory is most powerful when it is purposeful and selective. . . . [I]t requires that we possess stories and narratives that link facts in ways that are both meaningful and truthful, and provide a . . . way of knowing what facts are worth attending to. . . . We remember those things that fit a template of meaning, and point to a larger whole. We fail to retain the details that, like wandering orphans, have no connection to anything of abiding concern. . . . The design of our courses and

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

In partnership with playfulness, the imagination gives us the ability to find and make purposeful patterns and even plotlines: in other words, the ability to find and make meaning.

When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.

Spend time doing things that matter.

being right is not the point in this profession. Being useful is.

When you are purposeful and take daily action, more opportunities come into your life. Believe and build more.

It's a season for cherishing and worshiping this characteristic of God—that he is a searching and saving God, that he is a God on a mission, that he is not aloof or passive or indecisive. He is never in the maintenance mode, coasting or drifting. He is sending, pursuing, searching, saving. That's the meaning of Advent.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Sounds Machiavellian to me. I like to see what I'm aiming at, and go straight for it.' 'Most people don't, even though they'd protest that they do. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake:

Real love is intentional, an act of the will.

Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

The thing that's cool about the recording booth is that it's so perfunctory, so cut-to-the-chase.