Quotes About Purpose

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.

I would never be able to work on a photo-sharing app or 'Internet startup XYZ.'

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Every decision that you make you have to be incredible congruent. It doesn't mean that you have to starve. If you need money, you do something that gives you money, that's normal.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I got into this sport to make a statement.

The whole purpose of my education ultimately was so I could deliver a statement eloquently before my execution.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

You want to leave something; you really do. I mean, in the end, statues and all those things, that doesn't mean anything. Leave something that we're all going to benefit from. I think that's what I'd like to do.

If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.

Stay focused on the mission.

Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

I know how to stay focused on a mission.