131 quotes found
“You will serve. Either someone else's vision and purpose, or your own.”
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace which knows us.A writer ...”
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
“Your purpose is simply what you do each day.”
“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I coul...”
“Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life.”
“I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer e...”
“I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world....”
“Someones darkness disappears when you show up and allow your light to shine”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
“I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism. ”
“The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very ...”
“The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.”
“The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.”
“Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.”
“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure ...”
“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.”
“I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.”
“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”
“Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.”
