Quotes About Purpose

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.

What matters is how well we do in trying to make people's lives better. That's why I'm doing this. That's why I work the way that I work. And that's why I love what I'm doing so much.

Remember that it is not where you come from, or not even where you are; it is where you are going that matters most.

Quality isn't about where the money came from or which company gets to put their name on the thing. What matters is who made the movie and why they made it.

Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.

What I'm trying to do is maximize every day.

Being elected as Seoul Mayor came to me like God's calling.

I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

Art is the meaning of my life.

The meaning of life is life.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

My life is meaningful.

Everything I do is meaningful.

I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.

Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given.

I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.