Quotes About Purposeful

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.

A tall woman in a blue business suit and fancy sunglasses strolled purposefully down the sidewalk. Myron smiled at her, and she returned it. He would have preferred a faint or even a small swoon, but you can't have everything.

At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in an enterprise's economic or social potential.

The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise.

I quickly crossed the room

I've always just kind of been a single-minded person.

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

In India everything has a use and a value.

Every word, every brushstroke, every note from an artist should be deliberately so.- Kailin Gow on Efficiency

DIG Deep = "get deliberate, inspired, & going" Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply by setting intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.

All our actions—eating, drinking, sleeping, working—are thus potentially Christ's actions. But this potential must be actualized. Instead of a mindless drifting through the insignificant, apparently superficial and nonreligious events of the day, our passive union with Christ can be made active by creative acts of the will, intelligence and imagination.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

The development of unshakable self-confidence, therefore, begins with you taking full, complete, systematic and purposeful control of the contents of your conscious mind, disciplining yourself to think consistently about only the things that you desire and to resolutely keep your mind off the things that you fear.

Happiness is a condition. It is not something that is achieved by pursuing it directly, but rather comes as a result of our engaging in purposeful activities.

Confrontation,' he declared, 'is the essence of nature!' He shook his silvery braid loose and let his hair stream out behind him. 'Confrontation is the rhythm of life,' he went on. 'In nature violence is pure and purposeful, one species against another in an act of survival!' Terrific, Decker thought. Marlin Perkins on PCP.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

Detachment is a gift to each of us, really. Whether we are detaching from others or they from us, it's a show of respect every time. To not allow others, or to not be allowed, to make personal choices limits our growth. Our time here is purposeful. If we steer others in a direction that's not right for them now, time is wasted, lessons are postponed, and opportunities are missed.

Implementing these may require new thinking, new skills, and even new relationships. Probably none of this will feel natural at first. That's okay. Being Purposeful is often about doing what comes "unnaturally;" but when you're committed to achieving extraordinary results, you simply do whatever it takes anyway.

Extraordinary results are rarely happenstance. They come from the choices we make and the actions we take.