I found the best ideas usually came, not when one was actively striving for them, but when one was in a more… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Marijuana was made illegal because of William Randolph Hearst, the big newspaper guy. He owned thousands of acres of timberland and he… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In my opinion, you have to have a vision for how you add value to others through your product or service. Why… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this hook is not to produce cookie-cutter communicators, all polished and perfect models of the manual. The purpose is… — Carol J. Kent Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool?… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The great purpose is to set aside a reasonable part of the vanishing wilderness, to make certain that generations of Americans yet… — Frank Church Copy Share Image
“Rather than a vanity paycheck it feels better to give something of far more value than entertainment or money. Sometimes gifts can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of… — Agnes Denes Copy Share Image
Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose… — Wang Jianwei Copy Share Image
Government is not infallible. Government is only an executive control, a centralized authority for the purpose of expressing the will of the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life - not learning how to develop psychic powers, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I gained the weight on purpose for 'Little Nicky,' and it was one of those cases where I'd done a few roles… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
I really enjoy work to a purpose. Maybe that makes me kind of strange. In some ways - and this is going… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To the north of Armenia lies Zorzania Georgia, near the confines of which there is a fountain of oil which discharges so… — Marco Polo Copy Share Image
Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the… — Paul Rotha Copy Share Image
There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child's box of bricks; they explain to us the design… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I know that God is intentional with everything that He brings to me and what He does for me. I'm not here… — Michelle Carter Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
“TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again;… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
