Quotes About Meaning

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

Just because you got money doesn't mean you're gonna be happy, and just 'cuz you can buy everything in the world doesn't mean you're gonna find your purpose.

I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

It's nice to feel that you have a purpose.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Everybody has a purpose.

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

Every day we have to live our lives with greater respect and purpose.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.