Quotes About Fulfillment

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I haven't accomplished everything that I want to yet in my career, that's why I'm still playing. I just know that I still have something left inside of me to accomplish, and I don't know exactly what that is. Hopefully, I'll know one day soon.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be.

I dreamed of having big moments and having a big role. That obviously came a lot sooner than I thought.

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

I didn't want to be Nelsons's wife. I wanted to be soprano Kristine Opolais.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.

I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

We all have dreams, whether it be about success in our careers, improving our relationship with family and friends, or sorting out our finances.

It's not like I refuse to try roles other than being a strong female boss, but I am 54, and I'm happy I'm still being sought after and that I have a career that allows me a lot of creativity.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

When I recieved the Padmabhushan it was a happy moment no doubt, but it was not something I sought desperately to win. I never worked towards the award.