Quotes About Purpose

Leading with its values gave the United States a sense of purpose in the Cold War.

Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to basically collect money and do nothing.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

I need a big picture. I can't just do a collection of songs; that doesn't work for me.

For me, more than general box-office collections, what really matters is that I am doing something that I enjoy and love.

Not many college students know what they want to do.

Work has been the central column for most of my life; it has always been my identity.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

I didn't want to be a comedian.

I didn't think, 'I want to do dramas or I want to do comedies' - I wasn't clear in that way.

I am open to doing comedies, romantic stories, and commercial cinema, but it has to work for me so that I can give a year of my life in making it.

At the end of the day, people enjoy being comfortable. But that's not what life is about.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

When I first made some comment when we launched that part of our purpose was to do stuff that has social ripples, lots of people said it was such a glib thing to say. I actually believe that.

I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment.

All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.