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Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative. -- John Dewey
Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. -- Dan Millman
Purposeful giving is not as apt to deplete one's resources; it belongs to that natural order of giving that seems to renew itself even in the act of depletion. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Everything in our society is so purposeful. -- Sara Blakely
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. -- Hjalmar Schacht
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. -- Sara Blakely
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. -- Lester Bangs
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. -- Potter Stewart
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful. -- John C. Maxwell
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. -- Wayne Dyer
'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals. -- Peter Guber
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. -- Ben Shapiro
It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful. -- Banks
Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful. -- Tom Shadyac
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. -- Erich Fromm
The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet. -- Victoria Moran
The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The magic happens when you take facts and figures, features and benefits, decks and PowerPoints - relatively soulless information - and embed them in the telling of a purposeful story. Your 'tell' renders an experience to your audience, making the information inside the story memorable, resonant and actionable. -- Peter Guber
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it. -- Peter Guber
I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time. -- Joshua Harris
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape. -- Niger Innis
Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. -- Steve Gleason
Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart. -- Peter Guber
Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose. -- Simon Mainwaring
In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool. -- Peter Guber
The seminal elements of what makes a story great - challenge, struggle, resolution - are the same whether we're talking about story content for a movie such as 'Rain Man,' or telling a purposeful story to forge new business relationships or conclude a fruitful transaction, such as acquiring an NBA franchise. -- Peter Guber
I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life. -- Selma Blair
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. -- James Howard Kunstler
Life is a purposeful action. -- Asa Don Brown
Human action is purposeful behavior. -- Ludwig von Mises
A purposeful life is a happy life. -- Debasish Mridha
Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active! -- John Assaraf
The purpose of life is to be purposeful. -- Debasish Mridha
Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life. -- Debasish Mridha
Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action. -- Ilchi Lee
Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God. -- Iyanla Vanzant
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. -- Abigail McCarthy
The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work. -- Ray Kurzweil
Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour. -- Colin S. Gray
Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education. -- Charlotte Mason
Clear visions and positive goals, leads to positive actions and purposeful life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. -- Patanjali
Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals. -- John Baldoni
That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Faith means the purposeful suspension of critical thinking. Itâ??s nothing to be admired. -- Bill Maher
BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE. -- Michael Bierut
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take. -- Chip Kidd
All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal. -- Ayn Rand
With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be". -- Peter Guber
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful. -- Billy Graham
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. -- Meher Baba
The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. -- Brian Tracy
We are already abundant, we have everything we need within us, to live a purposeful and fulfilling life. -- Avis J. Williams
You ought to write down your goals. It serves as a guidepost and gives strength for purposeful action. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful. -- Viktor E. Frankl
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. -- Andrew Solomon
Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it. -- Bill Crawford
Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose. -- Iyanla Vanzant
In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills. -- Lilian Katz
The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life. -- Eric Hoffer
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence. -- William Arthur Ward
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life -- Potter Stewart
Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel. -- Liz Curtis Higgs
Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership's perception of you follows your behavior. -- Jack Welch
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away. -- Bob Goff
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? -- Bernhard Schlink
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action. -- Daniel Taylor
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. -- Hamza Yusuf
Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
There are three types of actions : purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters , to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three. -- Samuel R. Delany
Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf. -- Israelmore Ayivor
I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work. -- Sarah Lafleur
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. -- Charlaine Harris
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. -- Abdul Kalam
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes. -- Abdul Kalam
When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself. -- Brian Tracy
But he says things so subtly, so smoothly, that it's hard to tell if it's purposeful or if he's just playing along with my jokes. -- Kasie West
Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love. -- Bill Crawford
Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith. -- George Sweeting
Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven. -- Rick Warren
All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point. -- Rainbow Rowell
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate. -- Kurt Tucholsky
Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals. -- Peter Guber
The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". -- Israelmore Ayivor
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful. -- Hermann Oberth
The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love." -- Molly Friedenfeld
A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place. -- Andrew Schneider
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress. -- Steve Maraboli
Be positive in your thoughts, passionate in your words and purposeful in your actions. Clean thoughts, Cool words and Clear actions are the impressions that appeal to success. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving. -- Steve Brunkhorst
One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear. -- Sarah L. Cook
Autopilot is great, and removal of thought is one of the highest ideals of training. But removal of thought in the moment must be preceded by purposeful thought beforehand. -- Chris Matakas
Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive. -- Wayne Dyer
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor. -- Barry Ritholtz
Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory. -- Steve Maraboli
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Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull. -- Jim Rohn
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility -- Eric Hoffer
In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful. -- Deepak Chopra
Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success! -- Steve Maraboli
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Life is a miracle. YOU are a unique expression of this purposeful miracle. Think of how GREAT that makes you. Live big! You are not here to dwell within the basement of your potentiality. -- Steve Maraboli
No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains. -- Tony Hoagland
Change for the betterLet your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change! -- Israelmore Ayivor
American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery. -- Henry A. Wallace
Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success! -- Steve Maraboli
A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else. -- Bradley Denton
Change for the better... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun. -- Francine Pascal

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