Quotes About Purpose

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

Does Obama create confusion on purpose?

You've got to eliminate the confusion in your life. And eliminate the excuses.

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

One of the best pieces of wisdom I ever got is you work because you work, meaning you work because you're saying yes to things, and you're connecting with people.

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

Without a story, people aren't going to connect to what you're telling, what you have a pain point about. It's so important for them to know why you've created the company, without that connection to the broader vision that you have - why are you going to do it? What are you going to accomplish?

Even if we had the No. 1 video on MTV, and we had money and everything else, I think we'd always have more to do. I don't ever want to wake up in the morning and say, 'What are we gonna do today?' I'm afraid of that. I don't ever want to wake up and feel like we've conquered.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

For me, that is what my mission seems to be in my life on earth - to be awake, to stay awake, and to bring a certain kind of consciousness to the world, and to myself.

All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

I used to be one of those students who needed to see something bigger, and God brought people into my life who gave me a bigger vision than the circumstances that surrounded me.

Whether I live long or short is not the question: what quality that I surrounded myself is!

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.