Quotes About Purpose

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the 'why' are usually astute, high-performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse of those they benefit the most.

There are people who take tap class, do a tap dance. And then there are people who know the dance, who know why they take tap classes. Who know why they do 20 shuffles, or 50 shuffles, before they go on.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I think, given who the IBM target company is, I feel our purpose is to be essential to our clients.

I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection.

Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.

It doesn't matter what your target is, write down your goal and then plan how you are going to achieve it.

Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America.

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.

Controversies will disappear once you have a task and a mission.

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

When you're in the field, you just focus on the task at hand.

I have to force myself to remember that if I can't do my job, people's stories won't get told, and that helps me to focus on the task at hand.

My task as poet is close to me.

I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.