Quotes About Purpose

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

I function better in a world where I have to wake up every morning to go to work.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

I want to be able to function and that's the conversation that I'm having now more than ever - playing vs. functioning while I'm finished playing.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

God chose us to live both in body and in soul, but the body functions for the sake of the soul more than the soul functions for the body.

While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

Fundamentally, I like to accomplish things.

Fundamentally, I do a job at which I can make a living and I like it. That's the bottom line. I still really enjoy it. I like getting up and going to work. I've spent my whole adult creative life doing this.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

O'Malley did it for the express purpose of embarrassing me in an election year." The President's eyes locked on MacVeagh's, but the younger man grinned.

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.

There is an old saying that man only dares use his words for three purposes, to heal, bless or prosper. What man says of others will be said of him, and what he wishes for another, he is wishing for himself.

Contigo acabó mi búsqueda. Ahora sé cuál es el sentido de mi existencia: amarte y ser amado por ti.

But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?

pour le bon motif!

She was no longer a slow dreamer watching the flowers grow. She was a warrior now. Warriors need something to fight for though, beside their lives, because otherwise their lives will not be worth it.

Why else were we here except to love?

I am struck most strongly by her introspection, solitude, perfect self-awareness and sense of purpose…The beauty and truth of her words have transcended the limits placed upon her life by the darkness of human nature.

In any case, it is neither the responsibility nor the purpose of art to make us better human beings. And it's no wonder that art that takes on this solemn task so often winds up being didactic, preachy, cloying, and less effective than art with a less exalted notion of its purpose.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.