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Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it's worked. -- David Suzuki
Acting and the industry of making movies is beautiful, but it's so exhausting and such hard work; if you don't absolutely 100% want to do something, it defeats the purpose. -- Debby Ryan
If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored. -- Ryan Sheckler
The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work. -- Tyler Perry
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. -- Mitt Romney
I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together. -- Diahann Carroll
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. -- Brian Tracy
I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do. -- Fay Wray
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem. -- Herbert Croly
It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on. -- Matthew Ashford
I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer. -- Jane Campion
It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.' -- Bruce Feiler
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. -- Margaret Thatcher
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. -- Thomas A. Edison
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work. -- Christopher Lambert
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose. -- Michael Porter
I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Most designers and creative agencies, no matter their industry niche, will do some nonprofit or cause-related work at some stage of their career. This work helps us create a sense of purpose that is bigger than us. It connects us to our community, helps us leave a legacy and be part of something bigger than our own work. -- Peleg Top
There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything. -- Robbie Williams
Make work a purpose, not just a place. -- Tom Rath
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose -- Leonardo da Vinci
With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose. -- Emil Ruder
I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose. -- Lil B
I believe if everyone fulfilled their deepest life purpose, the world would work perfectly. -- Jack Canfield
Create a goal and a purpose to live for, work for, and die for. -- Debasish Mridha
Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. -- Gautama Buddha
Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work. -- R. K. Milholland
There is enough work for everyone. May you find your purpose and passionately live it. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights. -- Adolf Hitler
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously. -- Wayne Dyer
When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity. -- Steve Pavlina
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously -- Wayne Dyer
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. -- Minoru Yamasaki
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. -- George Halas
People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job. -- Rob Payne
You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought. -- Alan Cohen
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. -- Verner Panton
The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out. -- Oprah Winfrey
Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead. -- Roderick E. Stevens
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy. -- Carrie Fisher
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. -- Thorstein Veblen
Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period. -- Jack Canfield
Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you -- George R. R. Martin
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose. -- Scott Rudin
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life. -- Ricardo Semler
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose. -- Edward Abbey
Man is not a beast of burden, and the Sabbath is not for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency of his work. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for. -- Hans Selye
he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. -- Oliver Sacks
Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the 'work' that brought glory to God. -- Rick Warren
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. -- Thomas Carlyle
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. -- Eric Liu
The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for. -- Eric Liu
Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work. -- Alfred Austin
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? -- Howard Nemerov
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? -- William Allingham
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose. -- Gaspard Ulliel
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business. -- Richard Branson
Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start. -- Zig Ziglar
People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work. -- Marcus Aurelius
That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work. -- Byron Katie
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work. -- Bertrand Russell
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work. -- Alexander Agassiz
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living. -- Vanna Bonta
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. -- Alain de Botton
I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose. -- Jeb Bush
The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work. -- Mark Hart
Social honour recognises no distinction between the employer and the unemployed. All of them work for a common purpose and are entitled to equal honour and respect. -- Adolf Hitler
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. -- David Viscott
If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be -- Kai Greene
The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life. -- Ricardo Semler
We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure. -- Daniel Taylor
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole. -- Malachy McCourt
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. -- Dante Alighieri
The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work. -- Satish Kumar
When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work. -- Napoleon Hill
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads. -- George Bernard Shaw
When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time. -- David Kim

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