Quotes About Purpose

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

As writers, we all have an agenda, but if you recognize that agenda in a book, then you've failed.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

I will stay faithful to what God has called me to do all the days of my life, and I don't try to figure it out.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.

I do not want fame.

I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

If we really wanted to have a reorientation of the tech industry toward what's best for people, then we would ask the second question, which is, what would be the most time well spent for the thing that people are trying to get out of that situation?

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

Planning defines the particular place you want to be and how you intend to get there. It's a responsibility rather than a technique.

It's very important to know your body type before trying a particular exercise. It's also important to know why you are doing a certain kind of exercise. The technique should be correct.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. They each have their good points, but they are all incomplete in one way or another, and they'll mess you up if you center your life on any one of them to the exclusion of the others.

I wouldn't do really gratuitous nudity. When I was in my late teens, you'd read stuff and be like, 'That character serves no purpose except being naked', so that would not be something I'd want to do. It's pointless for me.

I'm glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can't imagine doing anything else.