Clear Purpose Quotes

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

To change history you have to have very simple goals.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support

Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

The pitch should be very clear about what you are doing, why you are doing it, and why I should care. If you can cover those things quickly and precisely, it's easy for me to decide whether I want to spend more time with you or not.

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I know who I am and what I want to say and what I'm supposed to sound like.

This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us

The how will show up after the commitment to the what.

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Simple design, intense content.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

I work best when I have a goal or direction to work towards.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.