Quotes About Purpose

No hay nada más dañino para un alumno, decía Robert, que un docente resentido, un docente que hace su tarea renegando de ella, creyendo que él está para más, que la vida le tiene reservada grandes tareas y mientras tanto no le queda más remedio que dar clases.

And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world--

The purpose of art," James Baldwin wrote, "is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers." He might have been channeling Dostoyevsky's statement that "we have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.

Why are we here if not for each other?

Dü?ünceler insan? öldürebilir ama dü?üncelerimiz u?runa ölmeye de?er.

He looked upward toward the night sky and said, "Honestly…was this the best you could do? Truly? Create creatures willing to work themselves into a state where they toss aside all reason? If the answer is yes, then what does that say about you? If the answer is no, then why didn't you put some more effort into it?

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Man was engaged in a mad scramble for power and knowledge, but nowhere is there any hint of what he meant to do with it once he had attained it. He

As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it. He

Go out and fight so life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Beyond a certain point we reach repetition and discover we are on the way back. Thus, life has no purpose beyond what it is at this moment.

There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.

In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.

The secret of success isn't knowing what you want, it is knowing what you don't want.

Artists often feel sad without knowing why.

The first paragraph is the arrow. The last paragraph is the target.

All people work for money. Principled people work for life.

Journalism can be expressed in many ways. Broadcasting is not a medium to denigrate anyone. I was part of journalism sometime ago. My purpose of living still remain unchanged -- to stay upright and balanced.