Quotes About Purpose

If nothing matters, why rage?

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built?

If you are building the wrong thing, optimizing the product or its marketing will not yield significant results.

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."2

As Peter Drucker said, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget? When I went home at the end of a day's work, the only things I knew for sure were that I had kept people busy and spent money that day.

We had gotten really good at optimizing, tuning, and iterating, but in the process we had lost sight of the purpose of those activities: testing a clear hypothesis in the service of the company's vision. Instead, we were chasing growth, revenue, and profits wherever we could find them.

You don't become a chef to become famous.

You have to do to be.

Sam's death had shown them that the Covenant were not invincible. They could be beaten. At a high cost, however. John finally understood what the Chief had meant—the difference between a life wasted and a life spent.

There had to be more to life than chasing money and grabbing Power.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

To survive is not enough. - Bujun saying

I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission

Il n'y a pas de solution à la vie sinon vivre.

Lohnt es sich denn?", fragt der Kopf. "Nein, aber es tut so gut!", antwortet das Herz.

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.