Quotes About Fulfillment

Now I know that if I surf without expectations and have a map for making my passion my life's plan, I'm always in the present and smiling.

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

I'm in three bands, and I love to produce records of other bands, and I have a family that I love. I wanted to be everything for everybody and do all of that... I think I just really beat myself up until I got really sick and needed surgery, because it was physically manifesting itself.

What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.

For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it was never really on my radar.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I think the best actors do both. I think they fulfill what you want them to do, in terms of the vision for the whole piece. And then they always bring something that does surprise you and shock you.

I will do films that will satisfy me and surprise the audience into saying, 'look where Rajpal started from and where has he reached today.'

I really believe that if people put everything they have into something, they can really surprise themselves most of the time.

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected.

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came.

One of the things that continually surprised people with the kind of shows I do, is that we try and find people who aren't doing jobs that are traditionally aspirational but who have nevertheless prospered and found real contentment doing it.

Looking back, I'm surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I'm glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling.

I am still surprised when I walk into a bookstore and see my name on a book's binder.

I've realized the person that I've always been and this gift that I've always had just had to be brought to light. It surprised me the most that being more who I am and not who I thought I had to be would make me successful.

It always surprises me and always makes me proud when I see people that I know I worked with at the house in the basement on TV being superstars.