Quotes About Purpose

distractions can actually serve a purpose. Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, they warn us—when we feel ourselves regularly succumbing to them—that our work is not well defined, or our tasks are menial, or the whole project we're engaged in is fundamentally pointless.

But we're just as proud of what our products don't do as we are of what they do. We design them to be simple because we believe most software is too complex: too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion.

When you build what you need, you can also assess the quality of what you make quickly and directly, instead of by proxy. Mary

Get the chisel out and start making something real. Anything else is just a distraction.

the number one counter to distractions is interesting, fulfilling work.

El único medio fiable de motivar a alguien es alentarlo a trabajar en lo que le gusta y le importa, con personas que le gusten y le importen. No hay atajos.

To do great work, you need to feel that you're making a difference. That you're putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you're part of something important.

You'll be doing your company more harm than good if you bring in talented people who have nothing important to do.

keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.

Pass on hiring people you don't need, even if you think that person's a great catch. You'll be doing your company more harm than good if you bring in talented people who have nothing important to do.

So hire slowly. It's the only way to avoid winding up at a cocktail party of strangers.

Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.

Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

Para qué esto y para qué lo otro, para qué el dinero, o un negocio y su urdimbre, para qué una casa y una biblioteca, para qué salir y trabajar y hacer proyectos, para qué tener hijos y para qué hacer nada. Nada dura lo bastante porque todo se acaba, y una vez acabado resulta que nunca fue bastante, aunque durara cien años.

Aspiramos siempre, supongo, a ser unos elegidos, y es improbable que de otro modo estuviéramos muy dispuestos a recorrer el trayecto entero de una vida entera, que corta o larga nos va rindiendo.

Nada peor que buscar el sentido o creer que lo hay. O sí lo habría, aún peor: creer que el sentido de algo, aunque sea del detalle más nimio, dependerá de nosotros o de nuestras acciones, de nuestro propósito o nuestra función, creer que hay voluntad, que hay destino, e incluso una trabajosa combinación de ambos.

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology.

It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a galaxy in cold, meaningless space. But just because our existence may have arisen unintentionally and without purpose doesn't preclude meaning or purpose from emerging as a result of our interaction and collaboration. Meaning may not be a precondition for humanity as much as a by-product of it.

Step 2: Check Your Purposes and Decide Whether to Raise the Issue • Purposes: What do you hope to accomplish by having this conversation? Shift your stance to support learning, sharing, and problem-solving. • Deciding: Is this the best way to address the issue and achieve your purposes? Is the issue really embedded in your Identity Conversation? Can you affect the problem by changing your contributions? If you don't raise it, what can you do to help yourself let go?

You can preface their expression with an admission that you are uncomfortable with these feelings, or that you aren't sure they make sense, but follow that preface by expressing them. Your purpose here is simply to get them out. You can decide what, if anything, to do about them later.