Quotes About Purpose

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

I think it's important to know what you want to do and push forth with it.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.

When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me was a love of learning, probably because my parents didn't have access to a great education.

It's about really having a God connection: a connection with the divine behind the world and flowing forth out of that in a positive way with love and moving toward making a contribution that pushes forth the evolution of the world.

I just realized at least what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing a consumerist society. So I went to do something else.

People can't pay you to care. People can't teach you to care. But when you find something that you care about, you give it everything you've got. You never settle. And you are always pushing to learn and be better and support those around you. All I've tried to do in my career is care.

With each project I'm always pushing for clarity.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

I get very picky. There's sort of a line you have to walk between working and doing something you actually want to be a part of, as opposed to just working for the work. That often puts you in a place where you have to choose whether or not you want to wait for good material to come along.

The only reason I write is that I feel I have to. Being the creator of a project puts me in a much better position to do the things I want to do.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

One never knows why God puts someone in your life.

This game is not only about putting the ball in the basket. It's the behavior, discipline, approach, preparation. Play with purpose and lead with purpose.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

Music for me was always life changing. So if I'm putting out crap music, then I have not done what I came to accomplish.

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.