Quotes About Fulfillment

I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.

I was a very good nurse, but I burned out after eight years or so because it wasn't what I truly wanted to do. Writing is what I belong to.

Nurses don't get paid very much. It didn't take long to realize that I could make more as a writer. I loved nursing, but I loved writing more.

You can have a career and kids who love you. But you have to nurture yourself and find a way to be fulfilled so you're not resentful.

To me, if I retire tomorrow, what the hell am I gonna do? Sit around the house and do nothing? I would drive everybody crazy, including myself. I would go nuts - literally, I would go insane.

In the U.S., those requesting a Green Card must take an oath that they will fulfill the rights and duties of citizenship.

I have to be obedient to my fans and come on back and give 'em everything that they want.

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

Desire creates its own object.

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.

I wanted to do everything right. I wanted to be good, and I wanted to be obedient, and I wanted to be the object of my parents' pride. I wanted to go to Heaven.

I had everything that you want. Every material object. Everything. But inside my core I still wasn't satisfied.

Controlling the design of an everyday object is very satisfying.

My objective is not to play for money, as I just want to leave good memories. That is the most important thing!

You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

For me, the goals were not important, but instead to lift some silverware at the end of the season. That is the objective for a footballer.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.

It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

In so many ways, a lot of the drive I've had to do certain things has been because of this sense that I have both the opportunity and in some sense the obligation to ratify that my parents' life had purpose.