Quotes About Purpose

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Este mundo cambiado requiere de soñadores prácticos que sean capaces de poner, y PONGAN sus sueños en acción.

Develops the capacity to reach decisions. Definiteness of purpose tends to develop the capacity to reach decisions quickly and firmly. Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Mind control is the result of self-discipline and habit. You either control your mind or it controls you. There is no hall-way compromise. The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

As knowledge is acquired it must be organized and put into use, for a definite purpose, through practical plans. Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end. This is one reason why college degrees are not valued more highly. They represent nothing but miscellaneous knowledge.

which of the nine basic motives the buyer will respond

there is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

The man who cannot be stimulated to great heights of achievement by love, is hopeless-he is dead, though he may seem to live.

mente y su propio cerebro. Debe usarlo y tomar sus propias decisiones. Si necesita datos o información de otras personas para poder tomar decisiones, tal y como probablemente requerirá en muchas ocasiones, debe adquirir estos datos u obtener la información que necesita discretamente, sin revelar su propósito.

Know what you want, when you want it, why you want it and HOW you intend to get it.

coordination of two or more individual minds, working in perfect harmony for a definite purpose.

definite chief aim.

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions.

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

So let us call here the teleological fallacy the illusion that you know exactly where you are going, and that you knew exactly where you were going in the past, and that others have succeeded in the past by knowing where they were going.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Non-narrative action: Does not depend on a narrative for the action to be right—the narrative is just there to motivate, entertain, or prompt action. See flâneur.

Simply: if you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

What survives must be good at serving some (mostly hidden) purpose that time can see but our eyes and logical faculties can't capture.

everything is "organized" with optimizing intent

it just meant not deriving your personal and emotional identity from your work, and viewing work as something optional, more like a hobby.

How was your year?" brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

He will die with the impression of having done nothing useful.