Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Why stay on the earth except to grow.

At some points I wanted to give up on music still, because the business is just as bad as it was when I left in 2005. But I'm learning that I have purpose to be here.

Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas