Quotes About Fulfillment

My obligation is to the movie audiences.

It's my obligation to celebrate after scoring a goal.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

I'm lucky enough that financially I don't have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Every little crazy dream that I had has come true, and more. And I'm always mindful that this is not a birthright, that one day I would have the chance to come to Augusta every year. Just a crazy, really, almost obsession for me.

The big problem in our society is the obsession with maximisation.

Going international is difficult. There are obstacles and barriers, but I couldnt, as some others do, be content with the success achieved in my country.

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.

Obviously going from an electrician to doing what I do now, the money is great. I can go on holidays now and do different things.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

I'm really lucky that my occupation is something I love.

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.