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Quotes About Purpose

It is the feeling of inferiority, inadequacy and insecurity that determines the goal of an individual's existence.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
Ever more patients complain of a feeling of emptiness and meaninglessness, which seems to derive from two facts. Unlike an animal, man is not told by instincts what he must do. And unlike man in former times, he is no longer told by traditions what he should do. Often he does not even know what he basically wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
What drives them, more than rewards, is the desire to find or create order where there was none before.
~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.
~ Tom Carter
The point of life was to press on, to do the best you can, to make the world a better place.
~ Tom Clancy
Time is something that fills the empty spaces of life
~ Tom Clancy
reason for giving up an itinerant life
~ Tom Clavin
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~ Tom Connellan
The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.
~ Tom Cunningham
Willpower and determination have their limits. A compelling life purpose, one you believe God created you for, will help you push beyond those limits
~ Tom Cunningham
Your Why Power will Ignite your Willpower to help you implement Habits that will enable you to Pursue Your Purpose with PASSION!
~ Tom Cunningham
As important as finding the Why behind your Purpose and Goals is knowing the Who. We will often do more and endure more for people we love than we will endure for ourselves. Find your Why and your Who and you will endure and overcome anything.
~ Tom Cunningham
Success is knowing your God given life purpose and pursuing it Passionately, Persistently, and Consistently until you die.
~ Tom Cunningham
Vision is the sine qua non of constructive change.
~ Tom DeMarco
The purpose of the schedule was planning, not goal-setting. Work that is not performed according to a plan invalidates the plan.
~ Tom DeMarco
I don't have a dogma that gives me a compass, that occupies me.
~ Ashley Zukerman
It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
~ Nell Newman
What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.
~ Bugzy Malone
I was never once told to consider anything but my dreams. It's probably one of the greatest gifts my parents gave me, because it never occurred to me to do something other than what I loved.
~ Candice Patton
I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.
~ Johnny Marr
I am just sitting back and trying to take in the idea that the God who created everything around us, He didn't call the mountains or the forest or the ocean to spend eternity with Him, but He called us.
~ Bart Millard
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
~ Kevin Smith
Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you.
~ Neal Adams
I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.
~ Gerald Green