Quotes About Purpose

Once I committed to acting, this has been it.

When you are committed to living a life in service to the most high, the choices to be great, to serve and be served, to love and be loved are apparent.

It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let's go win this game. It's called team.

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

I always say your truth is your compass to your purpose.

I feel one shouldn't turn director unless one is compelled to tell a story.

Even though I didn't realize that I was about to launch into a two-year struggle, a deep and compelling sense told me that I had to walk the path I'd chosen - or rather, the path that seemed to have chosen me.

I don't know how long my body will allow me to compete, but I can't imagine doing anything else. That day will come, and I just hope there'll be a light shining down a path telling me where to go.

I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

I'm still the best bantamweight in the world in my mind, yes. If I had any doubt that I was the best in the world then I shouldn't be competing. If you don't think you're going to be the best, what's the point?

If I'm not working, I don't feel complete.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.

Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason, I must write, and also because when I write, I feel more alive and closer to the world than when I'm not writing.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

I'm confident in who I and what I'm doing.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.