Quotes About Purpose

I couldn't live without acting. In fact anybody who can live without that feeling is a complete idiot.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

I hate being idle - there are still so many things I want to do.

I don't like idle time.

Being idly hanging around, and that's not good for an actor to do.

Before 'Idol,' I was lost... Now, I've actually followed through with something. I am a better man for it!

The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

It's really about the work - if you are doing it for the right reasons - really to illuminate the human condition.

At the 'Guardian,' we have a special relationship with our readers. This relationship is not just about the news; it's about a shared sense of purpose and a commitment to understand and illuminate our times.

I'm not someone who chases illusions.

These false barriers that we've erected of space and race, all these illusions that we've allowed to infect us like toxins, we've got to rid ourselves of that. We are a better nation when we are ultimately united in a common purpose and a common cause.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

I don't care about my personal acting career anymore. I'm done with it. After 10 years of making movies and doing better than I ever could have imagined, I sort of had to ask myself: 'What am I supposed to do with all of this success that I have had?'

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

I'm not a person who wants to die with my shoes on. I do not think I can be immortal. Maybe my deeds will be immortal. Not me.

I want to do everything and beyond. I want to create impact.

The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.

You can win a championship, but the amount of fulfillment that I get knowing I've impacted a whole community is bigger than a championship for me. It's what I stand for. It's how I live. And I think that's how the world should try to see itself to impact other people's lives.