Quotes About Purpose

I don't really think about recognition; I'm not really involved.

I don't play for recognition.

I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it.

Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.

I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

There are still recording artists out there doing things for the right reason, but a lot of people seem to be just driven by fame.

My goal was never to sell many records.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

The willed recovery of what's been lost - often forcibly, I suppose - is what keeps me going. It is this reason I found myself a poet and a collector and now a curator: to save what we didn't even know needed saving.

How do you recruit a player if you don't really know what it is that you are trying to do? How do you convince a player of the way you want to play if you don't have clarity yourself over why you want to do it?

You have to be able to wake up every day and be happy with what your decision in life is, and that's why I never recruit.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.

My work is a contemporary call to arms. It is time to get our mojo back. To rediscover our true north.