Quotes About Purpose

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

Going to university is, and should be, so much more than a mechanical process of grinding out a degree qualification for a pre-determined career path.

I haven't been to Oxbridge. I haven't even been to a London art school. My qualifications are pretty meagre for such a brief, but I just trust in my sense of what I'm interested in and my mission of clarity.

Women bring some great qualities to work. We bring risk-awareness. We bring a greater focus on relationships. We bring more holistic decision-making than gentlemen do. We bring a more long-term perspective than gentlemen do. We tend to look for meaning and purpose in our jobs to a greater degree than gentlemen do.

If you're designing a hammer, it's clear that it should hit a nail. But when designing a home, it's much more nuanced. You have to make sure there are qualities that nurture and enrich human life.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I'm trying to do work that makes meaning and sense to me and the audience. But I have no qualms. I'm always willing to be a part of commercial cinema.

Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

When you get your show - that's what 'King of Queens' was for me. That was my part; that was my show - I was meant to have that part.

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Without question, the material world and your everyday needs distract you from living meaningfully.

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.

When I first started acting, I was genuinely questioning whether or not I should be doing this.

It's dangerous to buy the American Dream without questioning. We need to ask, 'Why do I want this dream?'

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

The lyrics are a lot about those big questions: why are we here, how did we get here, what's the point, and what's next. When those questions come up with fans, I would absolutely share with them what has helped me and where I stand on what it is that I believe.

One of the questions that I often get is, 'Why are you running to be President?'. To Be President! What did I miss? I'm not running to go to Disneyland.