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“It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.”

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Book:Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Source: Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

“Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”

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Book:Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

Source: Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

“Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction.”

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Book:No Doubt about it

Source: No Doubt about it

“Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign. The real question is, what will we replace his bad policies with? Real patriots understand the need to think ahead, to create a meaningful purpose and direction as we rebuild our nation. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a Post-Obama World.”

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Author:Kesha Rogers

“Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country.”

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Author:F. David Mathews

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.”

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Book:Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)

“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”

“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”

People Stories Pain Purpose Principles Goes On Illusion Blessed Favors Make Sense Comforting Absent Life Goes On Purpose And Direction

Author:John Hodgman

“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.”

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Author:Rudolf Steiner

“We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.”

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Author:Alex Salmond

“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.”

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Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.”

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Author:Lowell Thomas