Quotes About Purpose

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

We are born into a particular place and time with a particular set of gifts and limitations. The challenge isn't to pluck the best career out of the air, but to learn yourself from the inside out: to know your gifts and accept your limitations and shape your life accordingly.

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.

I think some people can't understand why you wouldn't want kids but I can't see any advantages at all. We're overpopulated as it is. Plus, I hate thinking the only reason I'm here is to pop out a kid or two. I'd rather leave something else behind.

To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.

'Happiness' is a pointless goal.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless.

Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'

I know what my purpose is. I know what I need to do out there on the floor. Sometimes you won't score a bunch of points, but breathing confidence into the people around you is the biggest key, the biggest role.

I like clarity in what I do.

It is not about classical career questions but about questions for your life. Those are the questions that drive you on as a human being.

I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.

I have kids, I want something left for them. It's a cliche, I know, but it's true. That's what drives me every day.

I just want to do everything. I don't want to sound soppy or too cliched, but that's the way it is.

My goal with any reading is always to give the client what they are meant to hear.