Quotes About Purpose

When I lost my wife I had a whole different concept of her life. She lived 21 years and people who knew her know it wasn't about the great things she did on this earth. It wasn't that she had money or had popularity, it was that she loved Jesus Christ more than anything else in this world. That was how she related to the world.

So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

Everybody relates to having a dream.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

I'm a relatively unfocused person.

We want to do one thing and do it really well. For us, that's communications between people who are friends and relatives.

For me, it's important to relax and concentrate on what I want to do.

I can't relax. I don't have any hobbies.

I realized that I am not meant to relax all the time. I have gotten into the system of working for 12 hours.

It's a relaxed intensity I've got to live my life in.

I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.

I'm not a fan of my own work. People ask why I do it, but it's because I actually love what I'm doing in the moment. I live for it. It's a release.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

I honestly now know that I'm the physical embodiment of hip-hop on earth. That's my only purpose here on earth is to keep the culture together long enough for it to remain everything that we thought it could be when I was coming up.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

Apple doesn't do hobbies as a general rule.

I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to go into the medical professional. Acting was not important enough. That was a hobby - nothing to do with what you did in life.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.

I like to do things that I want to see myself. With 'Defending Your Life,' I wanted to see some aspect of death other than angels and the thing that 'Ghost' was about, because that didn't make any sense to me. So that's the reason: it fills a hole.

When I retire, my CV might have a few holes, things I haven't achieved that I would have felt I needed to do, but I won't know if I did need to do them until I retire.

I'm okay with not having a super-secure lifestyle because if you're doing what you like, you don't need stuff to fill any empty holes.