Quotes About Fulfillment

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.

As for the job of prime minister, I like it, yes. But no more than I've liked other work that I've done as an adult.

Most people ultimately realize that they can acquire things, change their partner or other things, consume more and still it doesn't work. I'm not criticizing any of this.

When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

Man is immortal till his work is done.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!

I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world.

Being a dad is the best role I've ever played, with all due respect to Steve Sanders. It really is the best thing ever.

I am - you know, I'm getting to do everything I've ever wanted to do, anything my imagination can think up. I'm getting to play with some of my favorite musicians in the world, ranging from Russell Allen to Billy Sheehan to Paul Gilbert to Steve Morse.

A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined.

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!