Quotes About Purpose

Without clear awareness of the short arc of life, nothing means very much.

there are many ways to interdict the growth of competence, of clear thinking, of forceful purpose, and each is a talking choo-choo in different guise: think of slasher flicks, think of pornography, think of Big Macs or tabloid/network news — each is easy to take, each seemingly an inconsequential time-killer. But ah! The ensemble of them playing their mindless tunes — the Death of a Thousand Cuts!

The earth might move, but human nature only accepts the move when it suits human purposes.

Unceasing competition for official favor in the dramatic fish bowl of a classroom delivers cowardly children, little people sunk in chronic boredom, little people with no apparent purpose for being alive.

We've built a technology-focused society that is remarkable on means, but hazy about ends. It's no longer clear to which question all this stuff - tech - is an answer, or what value it adds to our lives.

Religion, history, and philosophy are just fictions we've invented to explain our meaningless world.

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

If it's not worth making beautiful," Valiha said, "it's not worth making.

Yes, but what is it good for? What does it mean?" Her look was full of pity. "If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

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We're burnin' daylight.

God bends even our sins to his purpose.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

For a good long while, I ignored His command. Then I learned the hard way that the Lord will not be avoided, controlled, or silenced. Not ever and certainly not in such a season as now. The more I ran from the idea, the more it forced its way into my head until it began to dominate my mind. Like Jonah, I continued to run. I begged the Lord for some other calling, a different task.

Un pequeño grupo de personas con habilidades complementarias que comparten un propósito, metas de desempeño y maneras de trabajar juntas, por todo lo cual se hacen mutuamente responsables. KATZENBACH Y SMITH, The Wisdom of Teams

But don't you know, Mr Stoner?' Sloane asked. 'Don't you understand about yourself yet? You're going to be a teacher.

He said slowly, "You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

Innocent of fashion or custom, they came to their studies as Stoner had dreamed that a student might—as if those studies were life itself and not specific means to specific ends.

Supongo que hago esto porque no importa si lo hago o no. Y puede ser divertido pasear por el mundo una vez más antes de regresar a los claustros y a la lenta extinción que nos aguarda a todos».