Quotes About Purpose

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Training teaches how. Education teaches why.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

I love the music, I love who I am. So that is the driving force to make everything else work.

When you're so young, it's important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good - you have to be efficient and effective.

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, every day on the road.

I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

The thing where I've always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at.

For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.

When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question 'Who are you?' which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, 'Where are you going?' which is your aspiration and how you're going to get there.

I will continue to do films that excite me.