#mission

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do. ↗

— Gerard Debreu

#environment #i #optimal #research #type

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#commissions #i #i do #want #work

I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries. ↗

— Jayne Meadows

#china #i #i was born #missionaries #parents

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world. ↗

— Jeremy Jackson

#get #insides #life #mission #outside

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#buddhist #chamber #commission #discovered #got

It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor. ↗

— Don Johnson

#even #good #good actor #i #intended

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#being #commission #compulsion #divine #feel

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#exciting #first #fun #i #i think

The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#develop #first #flights #going #later

There's a lot of interest there in the missions that I fly on and the ones my brother's involved with. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#fly #i #interest #involved #lot