“Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.” PeopleThinkingTryingSometimesPurposeExtremityWorking With OthersSaboteurs Author:Mark Leyner
“It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingStoriesPurposeLostBoysKeep TryingLost Boys Author:Emmanuel Jal
“When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it's all great positivity - I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you're trying to do. And I've seen artists get caught up in that.” TryingLooksPurposeArtistGoes OnCaughtPositivityCaught UpTimelines Author:Kendrick Lamar
“There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important” TryingImportantPurposePracticeFoolGet AwayDrills Author:Albert Pujols
“When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.” TryingMindChildrenSchoolPurposeForceAcceptingDisciplineAdultsPurposefulness Book:The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism Source: The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism
“We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party” ThinkingTryingCountryTogetherPurposePartyLabourFragileGoverningLabour Party Author:Andrew Lansley
“We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.” TryingLongImportantPurposeArtistGivenStuffSpaceEvoke Author:Robert Genn
“Some people try deliberately to exploit the colonial hangover for their own purpose, to serve an external force. To us, Communism is as bad as imperialism.” PeopleTryingPurposeForceCommunismImperialismExploitsHangoverExternal Forces Author:Jomo Kenyatta
“The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.” ShouldTryingLooksPainPurposeSufferingTeachOur LivesLessonsPain And Suffering Author:Peace Pilgrim
“Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.” TryingMindIdeasMotivationalPurposeOrderProcessWalksCreativeStageParticularBrokenEssentialsFlowCombinationBoredomUnconsciousPocketsManifestStillnessCreative ProcessMuseBikeFragmentsFloatsDaydreamingClicksProcessingUnconscious Mind Author:Maria Popova
“Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.” FeelsTryingSometimesReasonLife IsPurposePracticeIllusionYogaEmptyNo ReasonLife Has No Meaning Author:Frederick Lenz
“When your purpose and your occupation is giving confidence to people, teaching self defense, giving empowerment, teaching a positive lifestyle to other people, you tend to emit that yourself because you want to live what you preach and you want to preach what you live, and I'm just trying to do my best.” PeopleWantGivingTryingSelfPurposeTeachingEmpowermentDefenseLifestyleMmaOccupationSelf Defense Author:Rener Gracie
“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We become familiar with the outsides of men, as with the outsides of houses, and think we know them, while we are ignorant of so much that is passing within them.” ThinkingKnowsMenTryingCharacterPurposeHouseBrokenTrainingReflectionEvery ManPassingIgnorantFamiliarPassingsSheepSkeletonsDraught Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.” IfsInspirationalTryingPurposeGoalAchieveCivilizationAchievementAimEverydayForgottenLive LifeAccomplishmentLiving My LifeLive Life HappyOne Life To LiveLifetime Achievement Author:Jean Giono
“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.” MenTryingCharacterPurposeBrokenTrainingEvery ManSheepSkeletonsDraught Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg