Quotes About Purpose

I think we are all trying to figure out what it means to be the Church as opposed to just doing church.

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already doing for more people as opposed to being so large and so great that I no longer want to do the thing that got me here.

People, including business leaders, are willing to be open-minded about investment dollars when they know where they are going - and what purpose they are going to be dedicated - as opposed to just going into the black abyss of the general fund.

I don't think 'nothing' is a good option.

I only have one life to live, and living it to the fullest is the only option I choose.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be.

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

It's a very organic feeling to have something really speak to you and kind of lay out the blueprint for you.

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests.

All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

From the first-year students' fall orientation to the board's annual budget-approval meeting, everything a healthy college does requires a shared sense of mission.

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I was going to be a comedian but then also winning Oscars and directing movies and creating my own charities and saving the world. The more I've let go of that... I see more access to possibly being able to have something like that.

I was always very different from the other kids. I have an I.Q. of 156. I didn't play sports. I thought big. I thought I could achieve great things. I don't want to sound megalomaniac, but my whole life is about doing something for the world, from as far back as I can remember.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.