Purpose Quotes

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. Trevor Noah
Nature People Simple Comedy Word First Think Bonus Laugh Relevant Laughing Some About Purpose Comedians Make Issues Very Want Anything Them Deeper Socially
I like having a beard. What's funny is when you shave a beard, you realize how freezing cold your face is! The primary purpose evolution-wise is to keep you warm, to grow hair on your face. You shave it off, and your face is freezing for a few days. Adam Scott
Funny You Beard Face Hair Few Cold Having Purpose Primary Days Like Freezing Shave How Off Warm Realize Your Grow Keep
The purpose of life is to love and be loved... what could possibly be more energizing than that? Alan Mulally
Life Love Possibly More Purpose Could Than Loved Energizing To Love
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. Anatole France
Teacher Art Natural Young Minds Only Purpose Curiosity Afterwards Teaching Whole Awakening Satisfying
I believe that God has a plan and purpose not only for the human race, but for my individual life. Anne Graham Lotz
Life God Believe Only Purpose Individual Individual Life God Has A Plan Human Race Plan Human Race
Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Day Home Purpose Never Journalism Him Reader Permit Ultimate Inform Interests Special Special Interests Each Each Day Letter Bring Serving
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Perception Country Group One Country UN Small Purpose Small Group Countries Than Legitimacy Interests Unique Larger Universal Flows
If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't. Bill Bennett
Me You Money Will Assure Fine Purpose Fact Take Know Sure Does Go Lot Tax In Fact Tax Money Poor Then Help Right
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world. Bill Walton
Love Hope Best Me Peace Grateful Creativity World Vision Passion Dance Believe Imagination Purpose Dead Message Makes Friends Celebration Luckiest Teamwork Grateful Dead Things
The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win. Blake Farenthold
Justice Win Somebody Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Punish System Both Purpose Huge
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett
Visualization Purpose Daydreaming
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. Bruce Springsteen
Time Consistency Thought Long Action Purpose Long Period Over Demands Period Audience Getting Sustaining Hard
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. Charles Henry Parkhurst
Life Gives Purpose Meaning
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. Chinua Achebe
Journey People World Made Whatever Thorough Consolidating Purpose Leaders Existing Stories Gains Serve Imagine
My position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I don't see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. Chinua Achebe
Art Good Humanity See Purpose Always How Existed Frustrate Good Art Help Serious Serve Position
Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here. Cicely Tyson
Unless Some No Interest Something Purpose Had Know Piece Said Got Interest Really Served Here
The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision. David Boies
Love You Constitution Rights Decision Minority Past Down Every Strikes Marry Purpose Voters Protect Majority Supreme Supreme Court Court Court Decision Very Affirming Discriminatory Person Legislation Against Decisions Bill Bill Of Rights Including Fundamental Fundamental Rights
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis? Edward Zwick
Me Drama Purpose Catharsis Forgive Forgive Me
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. Freeman Dyson
Future People Predict Thinking Hopes About Purpose Raise
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will
Life Game Respect Law Important Distilled Rules Ancient Rather Unchanged Purpose Most Judges Opponents Unwritten Than Just Common The Most Important Common Law Decisions Show Derives Baseball Codes
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Guy Finley
Life Winter Stream Spring Fall Energy Tree Summer Once One Area Sunlight Something Outlived Purpose Area Through Longer Leaf Another Existence Same Being Different Transfer Then Usefulness Captures Serve
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. H. G. Wells
Death You Suffering Made Revolution Nothing Our Danger Worthwhile Abolish Purpose Simply Wrong Suffer
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. Harold Rosenberg
Education Culture Claims Insight Purpose Drowned New Repetitions Offer Being Senseless Which Each Keep
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. Henepola Gunaratana
Transformation Meditation Purpose Personal
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry Adams
Politics Too Only Purpose He Cheers Certain Who Stands Serve
The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life. Henry B. Eyring
Life God Learning Experience Giving Live Back Purpose Allow Come Him Learning Experience His Eternal Eternal Life Us Creations Necessary
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