Quotes About Fulfillment

I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm not trying to be the next Tupac, but I don't know how long I'm going to be on this planet. So while I'm here, I might as well make the most of it.

I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding.

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in desolation.

I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

I never - in my dreams, doing track in high school, I didn't imagine it would turn out like this.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.'

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

I always want to win, and it was time to win some club prizes, some titles. I never would have gone for the money, but wanted the chance to get a bit further in my career. And it turned out to be the right decision.

I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian.

I have no complaints on any level. I'm pretty happy about the way everything has turned out.

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

I turned forty, and I'm finally going to get married and maybe have a kid.

But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

I am happy with the way things are turning out for me because it is only my hard work and no one else's push.

Turning one's back on stardom might be the highest form of common sense. One that I would aspire to be more complete with.