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“a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.”

Purpose Courses Enthusiasm Committees

Book:Living Alone

Source: Living Alone

“Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.”

Men Ends Purpose Religion Worthy End Of Life

Book:The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith

Source: The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith

“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.”

Giving Said Problem Purpose Half Marriage Loneliness Balance Diets Divorced Sock

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

“Just as a pool of water cannot reflect the sky overhead when it is restless and disturbed, so we can never get a perfect vision of the Divine, and show it to others when we are disturbed with human thoughts and personal problems. It is only when we are quite still and receptive that God can think His thoughts into us and use us for His purposes.”

Thinking Humans Stills God Use Shows Problem Purpose Peace Water Perfect Vision Sky Divine Pool Restless Disturbed Receptive Overhead Human Thought Personal Problems

Author:Alice Hegan Rice

“I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity.”

People Real Government Purpose Opportunity Felt Leader Cases Restraining Purpose Of Government

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.”

Want Giving Purpose Easy Offense Etiquette

Author:Angela Lansbury

“The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in the coming back. Zen is not just a matter of gaining enlightenment; it's a matter of acting in a world of love and compassion.”

World Love Matter Purpose Acting Compassion Enlightenment Ultimate Remembered Going Away Coming Back Love And Compassion

Book:The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

Source: The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto

“administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!”

Want Facts Purpose Officials Bureaucracy Administrative Outrun Ardor

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.”

Purpose Leadership Ability Common Leader Groups Share Depends Depth Following Conviction Invisible Executives Followers Common Purpose

Book:Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

Source: Freedom and Co-ordination (RLE: Organizations): Lectures in Business Organization

“The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.”

Purpose Force Leadership Ability Common Quality Leader Groups Team Enterprise Organize Common Purpose Leadership Qualities

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further and larger purposes. And I do not mean here by larger purposes mergers or more branches; I speak of larger in the qualitative rather than the quantitative sense. I mean purposes which will include more of those fundamental values for which most of us agree we are really living.”

Mean Purpose Values Energy Speak Leadership Leader Objects Creating Agree Fundamentals Release Branches Mergers Qualitative Really Living

Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett

“It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.”

Men Children Matter Reason Purpose Justice Chance Impossible Betray Another Man

Author:Margaret Halsey

“This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.”

Purpose Conscious Theology

Author:Dorothee Solle

“It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective mood, but to speak from the imagination of the poet to the imagination of the reader.”

World Purpose Speak Imagination Records Poet Reader Mood Subjective Outer Worlds Anything And Everything

Author:Kathleen Raine

“Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.”

Purpose Taught Capitalism Oppression Efficiency

Author:Anna Louise Strong

“I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”

People Different War Hard Bigs Might Together Lasts Young Purpose Interest Leader Sacrifice Special Regret Tough Difficulty Glad Isolated Special Interests

Author:Ann Richards

“It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Said Purpose Lines Effort Fine Genius Weakness Defeat Barriers Success And Failure Insurmountable No Failure Continuous Effort

Author:Kate Smith

“There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.”

Way Firsts Two Purpose Fun Enjoy Extraordinary Two Ways Pondering

Author:Victor LaValle

“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.”

Humans Made Purpose Strong Sex Women Destiny History Modern Subjects Effects Century Including Despite Human Life Dogma Assertion Nineteenth Century Strong Will Women In History

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and wherever it is important for truth-seeking purposes to know what is being talked about and the context gives no intimation whether 'man' means just a human being irrespective of sex or means a masculine being and none other.”

Knows Men Giving Years Humans Mean Important Use Purpose Sex Human Beings Difficulty Careful Seeking Critical Lawyer Scholar Masculine Translators

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“[On power:] Some people really have almost a disdain for that word. They feel it is alien to conscience. Power for power's sake, no. But the positive use of power for positive purposes is very important. You have to understand that. You've got to have a seat at the policy table if you want to make a difference.”

People Ifs Want Feels Important Use Purpose Differences Policy Conscience Tables Sake Aliens Seats Making A Difference Disdain Use Of Power

Author:Elizabeth Dole

“All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.”

Way Heart Purpose Views Known Ignorance Particular Commitment Claims Core Betray Defining Exclusive Caricatures Sameness Uncompromising Who God Is

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.”

Said Reason Age Purpose Next Born Generations Reader Understood Shadow Crosses Casts Giants Towers Great Writers Irrelevance

Author:Caroline Gordon

“I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.”

Thinking Knows Purpose Destiny Blessing Curse Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Lady Gaga

“I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.”

Use Feelings Purpose Growing Progress Mankind Disgraceful

Author:Stanislaw Lem

“As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.”

Purpose Suffering Social Loss Wife Groups Isolation Housewife Housework Social Groups Social Isolation

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.”

Men Mean Purpose Social Sex He Man Ultimate Dating Encounters Engagement Invites Conventional

Book:Heavenly Date: And Other Stories

Source: Heavenly Date: And Other Stories

“There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.”

Earth Purpose Force Effort Gossip Buried Rumor Crushed

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all productive living must rest, for relationships among all the beings of the universe must be fulfilled; in this way each individual life may also be fulfilled.”

Way May Purpose Universe Individual Principles Essence Breaths Productive Fulfilled Individual Life Good Living

Book:The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

Source: The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

“The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.”

Purpose Bearable

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“The wicked will run to the iron bridge, but it will collapse under their weight. The righteous will cross the paper bridge, and it will support them all. Paper is the only eternal bridge. Your purpose as a writer is to achieve one task, and one task only: to build a paper bridge to the world to come.”

World Running Purpose Support Achieve Paper Eternal Crosses Tasks Weight Bridges Wicked Iron Righteous Collapse

Book:The World to Come: A Novel

Source: The World to Come: A Novel

“As a good gardener prepares the soil, so a wise leader creates an environment that promotes community. ... community involves a common place, a common time, and a common purpose. Just getting people in the same place at the same time does not produce a team. Community requires a common vision.”

People Doe Purpose Community Common Leader Vision Environment Wise Team Produce Soil Gardener Common Purpose Wise Leaders Common Vision

Author:Diane Dreher

“I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.”

Purpose Fit Models Climate Climate Change Arguing Detection Attribution

Author:Judith Curry

“For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.”

Should May Inspiration Purpose Artist Effects Aim Landscape Neglect Traits Minors Finishing Authorship Rubens

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“One of the main effects (I will not say purposes) of orthodox traditional economics was ... a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.”

Purpose Class Plans Effects Position Economics Traditional Welfare Orthodox Privileged Explaining

Author:Joan Robinson

“Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective”

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.”

May Purpose Childhood Manhood

Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.”

Thinking Should Humans Art Real Helping Purpose Challenges Human Beings Activity Real Life Navigate True Purpose

Author:Martin Firrell

“I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.”

People Purpose Energy Technology Nuclear Peaceful Iranian Nuclear Technology

Author:Maurice Motamed

“I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.”

“Seurat and Signac mixed paintings with the dry and abstract laws of science. This approach, in my opinion, usually strays from the purpose of art in general. Because it means that one cannot expect from an artifact, that is created with mathematical laws, to establish an improbable and irrational relationship between the work and the viewer.”

Mean Art Law Purpose Opinion Painting Approach Mathematical Abstract Dry Irrational Viewers Improbable Artifacts Purpose Of Art

Author:Guity Novin

“This new declaration which emphasizes the necessity of global disarmament is based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations, in particular the prohibition of the threat and use of force, and on the obligation to negotiate disputes in conformity with the UN Charter. It is a strong and positive example for the entire world.”

“I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.”

Men Needs Purpose He Man Valor Valiant

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.”

May Doe Country Able Purpose Social Events Circumstances Conflict Eating Remains Hunger Tragic Protest Symbolic Literal Starvation Metaphoric

Book:The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

Source: The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness

“A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.”

World Looks Children Different Soul Play Body Light Seems Faces Purpose Strong Walks Laughing Sun Special Serious Blessed Sacred Legs Light Up Old Soul

Author:Anne Cameron

“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Should Mind Persons Whole Purpose Suffering Found House Special Chosen Shelter

Book:Typical American

Source: Typical American

“A purpose gives meaning to life. It is like the hub in a wheel -- with every spoke fitted into it to make a strong and perfect circle. Without such a hub, spokes will not radiate evenly and your wheel will lack strength, will tend to break apart on the first good bump it hits. Given a strong hub, a strong purpose, a person can take a surprising number of shocks and bumps on the outside rim without sustaining permanent damage.”

Giving Firsts Persons Purpose Strong Given Perfect Numbers Break Circles Permanent Damage Wheels Shock Spokes Surprising Bumps Sustaining Meaning Life Rims Hub

Author:Oveta Culp Hobby

“Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.”

People Purpose Causes Sin Grace Effects Guilt Condemnation

Author:Andrew Wommack

“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Men World Humans Children Purpose Artist Loses Cities Roles Darkness Forever Mines Duty Sight Forests Conquer Wilderness Feds Precise Conquest Dwelling Swamps Drained Dwelling Place

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.”

Feelings Purpose Regret Guilt Educational Useless Code Ethical Remorse

Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety