Quotes About Purpose

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

I am a fan of all genres. My big thing is to serve the purpose of the script and what the director wants. If it's a comedy, I want to be funny; if it's action, I want to bring the action. If it's drama, I want to be the catalyst for that drama. That's the fun part; it never gets boring being an actor.

In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

Original Monkees' songs were produced very thinly, on purpose.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

I am proud of my scars because they show I dedicated myself to a bigger purpose.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.