A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
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Purpose
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
科学的目的不是分析或描述世界，而是建立有用的世界模型。模型是有用的，如果它允许我们使用它。
To explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of who and what I am.
为了探索有目的地充实地、感性地、充满激情地生活意味着什么，我必须放弃对我是谁和我是什么的先入之见。
Yes there is a meaning; at least for me, there is one thing that matters - to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
是的，这是有意义的;至少对我来说，有一件事很重要，那就是让一些挑剔的人的脑海里响起一段和谐的话语。
If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.
如果你去那里，你的主要目的是得到一个赞助商，那么这是行不通的。出去玩就好了。我就是这样得到赞助的。
My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
我的目的是激励各行各业的人们发现他们内在的美德，并在日常生活中发挥这种美德。
I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.
我想黑暗有一个目的:向我们展示混沌中有救赎。我相信这一点。我认为这是希腊神话的基础。
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里，有一段短暂的时间，某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
我意识到…在网站、产品或企业中，主要出于利他目的而存在的成功案例是多么的少。
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.
那天他死了，因为他的身体发挥了作用。他的灵魂完成了它的使命，学会了它的使命，然后就可以自由地离开了。
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
如果一个人不坚定地追求崇高或美好的目标，上帝不会为他留下任何美好或崇高的东西。目标是成功的永恒条件。
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
许多人对什么是真正的幸福有错误的认识。它不是通过自我满足，而是通过对有价值目标的忠诚来实现的。
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
在领导力中，相互认同的目标有助于人们达成共识，承担责任，为共同利益而工作，并建立社区。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
人真正需要的不是一种没有紧张的状态，而是为一个值得自己去追求的目标而奋斗。他所需要的不是不惜任何代价释放紧张，而是一种潜在意义的召唤，等待着他去实现。
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
令人惊奇的是，当我们确信自己在履行自己的职责时，会激发起多大的决心、勇气和意志力。
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
我们所观察的宇宙，如果其本质上没有设计、没有目的、没有恶、没有善，只有盲目、无情的冷漠，那么它就具有我们所期望的特性。
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
首先告诉自己你想成为什么样的人;然后做你必须做的。
When we love there is no reason why.
当我们相爱时，没有理由。
Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.
研究表明，这些孩子更容易受到广告的影响，甚至不太可能理解广告的目的。