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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. -- George Halas
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
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
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
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
I think 'work' is anything I'm doing with intention and purpose. There is absolutely no negative connotation to the word 'work' for me - I feel lucky that I get to wake up every day and spend my days doing things I believe in. -- Jessica Jackley
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
The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms. -- Patricia Hewitt
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life. -- Halle Berry
It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose. -- Atom Egoyan
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
In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines. -- Chuck Palahniuk
So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out. -- Michael York
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. -- Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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
We need to do a top/bottom review of the federal government and for every agency administration bureaucracy that is not called for in the United States Constitution, we have to really ask the question what is its purpose, how many people work there, how much does it cost the taxpayers and what is the value to our society. -- Josh Mandel
In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study. -- Philip Johnson
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Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy. -- Jon Landau
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
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
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
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 work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out. -- Oprah Winfrey
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. -- Verner Panton
The corset is?a mutilation, undergone for the purpose of lowering the subject's vitalityand rendering her permanentlyand obviously unfit for work. -- Thorstein Veblen
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
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
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
I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose. -- Scott Rudin
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
The purpose of work is to make the worker - whether a working stiff or a CEO - feel good about life. -- Ricardo Semler
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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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