Quotes About Purpose

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

People don't understand, and I do, is what happens after wrestling. What do you do when people stop chanting your name? For me, I already had that with the nightclub business before wrestling and now with DDP YOGA.

I've got a drought-tolerant garden; I've got a company - crazy as it sounds, we make yogurt. There are actors who have to act no matter what, but I don't want to do it just for the sake of doing it.

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York.

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

The climb might be tough and challenging,but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can't always see it right away.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.

You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

Society sets us up to be everything but ourselves, but I want to take a moment and say to people, love yourself. Find your purpose. You are unique, and that makes you great. I pursued my dreams. You can do it, too.

If you can do it then why do it?

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

When you find something that makes you feel that only you can do it and nobody else, then you automatically want to do it.

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.