Quotes About Purpose

For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.

I know success; I've done it, but success is not what everyone thinks it is. It's only a tool and a platform for a greater message. That's where my nickname 'The Messenger' comes from. The UFC and a world title are a platform for something greater. For a bigger purpose.

Technology remains a tool: you can have the best tool in the world, but if you have nothing to say, it will remain an empty experience.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

I believe that art is a tool and that, like all tools, it has functions. I also think it is important to know what the tool is for so that we can better know how and when to use it.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all.

It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

I mean, the number one goal is to make people laugh, that's definitely the first aim; but aside from that, when we discuss which topics to talk about, the second goal is to try and make a point about it.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

Newton blew away any dusty talk of natures and purposes, revealing what lay underneath: a crisp, rigorous mathematical formalism with which teachers continue to torment students to this very day.

They were materialists, who hoped to explain the world in terms of objects obeying rules, rather than being driven by an underlying "purpose.

There may be no ultimate answer to the "Why?" question. The universe simply is, in this particular way, and that's a brute fact.

No encontraremos propósito ni significado en las leyes de la naturaleza, o en los planes de ningún agente externo que hizo que las cosas sean como son; nos corresponde a nosotros generarlos.

Si nuestras vidas son breves y carecen de dirección, al menos podemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestro coraje colectivo en nuestra lucha por comprender cosas mucho más grandes que nosotros.

The meaning we find in life is not transacendent, but it's no less meaningful for that.

I don't believe in God because there is one, I believe in God because there should be.