Quotes About Fulfillment

I just don't want to ever make decisions based on something that I feel like I shouldn't do, or if it's a logical career step. It has to be something that inspires me. Because if it's not something that inspires me, then I'm not going to do it well. And that doesn't help anybody.

People who truly love their lives are the most inspiring people of all.

Can I bond with people and live for 39 days without my Instagram account? Probably! But the real question for me is this: can I be happy doing that?

I would love to work on another installment of 'Gilmore Girls.'

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

I need instant gratification.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.

The quality of one's emotional life changes over the years, doesn't it? But the basic instincts and desires, greed and hope, seem to remain constant. In the larger scope of things, there's a sense of fulfillment to living a creative life. So I guess that's what keeps me going.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

Institutions need a lifetime to realize their potential.

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.

I feel a lot closer to music and my relationship with my instrument than I did as a teenager. I have an adult perspective now about getting to do something I love for a living.

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

A healthy soul is whole and integrated. It is connected to God. A person with a healthy soul is at peace with God, with himself, and with other people.

'Money' is never about money. It's an intellectual exchange for something that you believe will make you feel better.

I had to be intellectually satisfied as well as emotionally because at that time of life one doesn't just fall into it in adolescent emotion, and I was satisfied at every point that it was the one way and the hard way to do things.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

I well remember the pride that my parents felt when my brother and I went up to Cambridge, but I also know many friends that I grew up with - brilliant, funny, acutely intelligent girls - who never fulfilled their potential.

What happens to most intelligent people is they retire after they turn 26 or 27. I don't have to deal with that problem.

I don't intend to die.