#pose

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#back #energy #enjoy #giving #i

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#ago #been #being #civilization #difficulties

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #love #moments #purpose

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#beings #designed #emotions #hopes #intended

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #best way #century #comics #doing

All things being equal, if we could simulate the same scenario, he has a lot more difficult task. He's elected to swim six individual events, as opposed to what I elected to do, which was four. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#being #could #difficult #difficult task #elected

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#authority #authority figures #children #figures #only

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference. ↗

— Fred Allen

#advertising agency #agency #been #bit #conference

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

#aim #devote #legitimate #purpose #single

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗