A rescue mission doesn’t involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can’t just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child’s original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
In short, you can’t let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
At Coinbase, our mission is to create an open financial system for the world. We believe that open protocols for money will create more innovation, economic freedom, and equality of opportunity in the world, just like the Internet did for publishing information.
It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
When it comes to communicating change at any time, the mission must be clear, and it must inspire.
Mission Control in Houston receives our e-mails through a satellite and then sends them out to our family and friends. Likewise, any e-mails written to us go through the Mission Control, and then they send them up to us via a satellite.
Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
Now, what really makes a teacher is love for the human child; for it is love that transforms the social duty of the educator into the higher consciousness of a mission.
My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that’s what the consultant said I had.
New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.
I was a litigation lawyer, working in downtown Toronto. I was successful, yet I was very unfulfilled. I had the sense that I really wasn’t living according to my values, and I didn’t have the passion or sense of mission I was looking for.
I applied everything that I could muster creatively to this mission to find a way to create a new ‘Jurassic Park’ movie for a new generation.
Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it’s not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.
It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we’ve found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn’s.
I’ll never regret going on my mission.
I think my whole generation’s mission is to kill the cliche.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, ‘That’s the guy I want to go into battle with.’
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that’s just my definition.
When we were creating Warby Parker, for us it was about having a positive impact on the world and having a strong social mission.
We’ll be examining and auditing and reviewing all of the programs of the department and really figuring out what is the core mission and how can the federal department of education really support and enhance the role of the departments in the states.
Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe – I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.
I’m totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I’m too mercurial.
Each daughter of God is of infinite worth because of her divine mission.
As much as the constitutional argument matters to me, what really matters to me is this sort of moral question of can we order somebody to risk their lives about a military mission if we’re not willing to debate, vote, and say that the military mission matters?
In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.
You can satisfy your soul’s mission by committing to leaving something behind on this planet that will make a difference to those who come after you.
The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.
My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane.
To all of the artists that attend the Grammys: Stop accepting the invitation to be the upset of the year and demand that this body upholds its mission for advocacy and support of artistry as culture evolves. Demand that they change this system and truly reflect and truly acknowledge your art.
My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.
In virtually every organization, regardless of mission and function, people are frustrated by problems that seem unsolvable.
All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google’s mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I’m on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!
And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
It’s true that Apollo 10’s lander was overweight. Late in the craft’s development, it became clear that its ballooning weight was endangering the whole mission.
I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I’ve got to focus on the mission.
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.
Winning in Oakland in ’89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that ’88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.
For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.
We Jews who willingly and happily confirm our covenantal status and its attendant rights and duties must take the question of mission seriously: either to accept it or reject it knowingly and with conviction.
I don’t have a mission. I don’t have a torch to burn.
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole.
I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.
The mission we are about is something that truly energises me. I feel that at Lockheed Martin we have the opportunity to make a difference… supporting men and women fighting for our peace and freedom.
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We’re doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.
I am not brutal or cruel to animals. My mission has always been to save dogs – especially troubled and abandoned dogs. I’ve dedicated my life to this.
Rusbridger’s curious success, especially for a temperamentally remote figure, has been to give a reasonable face to the Guardian’s quite quixotic mission.
I solemnly declare that this spiritual kingdom of faith will move forward with or without each of us individually. No unhallowed hand can stay the growth of the Church nor prevent fulfillment of its mission. Any of us can be left behind, drawn away by the seductive voices of secularism and materialism.
CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission – to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.
A continuing narrative throughout Australia’s history that says it is better to build up than to tear down – this is the continuing mission of Labor.
