Quotes About Purpose

I've come to recognize that social purpose must be embedded into the core DNA of a company. The questions 'Why do we exist as a company?' and 'How do we make a difference?' need to have the same answer.

This is going to sound corny, but I feel like I didn't choose music. Music chose me.

If corporate leaders and their acolytes are not slaves to some meritorious social purpose, they run the risk of being enslaved by their own ignoble appetites.

I think sometimes we're meant to do something but things aren't lined up correctly.

I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.

Belief and trust in the power of the Cosmos gives even the most chaotic life a new sense of order and purpose.

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.

There had to be something more important than me being comfortable, me being OK, and me being that one person that made it from Stockton. That's why I decided to run for city council in 2012.

I want all my pain to count for something.

I'm not really the type that likes to put out a project just to say I've put it out - I like to make them count.

You only get so many shots in this life, and you gotta make it count.

I've never known a day of my life that I didn't want to sing country music. I really did always know that it was my destiny.

It is what we do with our lives that counts.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

You keep getting calls, but then doing the right project and being sure of what you want to do is what counts.

I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

I didn't get why I was wearing a mask. But I understand it now - why my dad would want our face to be covered.

I'm happy in what I do, and I just like cracking on, doing what I love. The people around me know who I am, and that's what means the most.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

The most important thing is loving what you do, this is the craft of the heart.

There is more to life than a job. I didn't ever want to look back and point to a bookshelf of videotapes and say, 'That's been my life.' It's so much easier to write a resume than it is to craft a spirit.

This job forces you to ask yourself so many questions: Do you want money? Do you want power? Do you just want to be good at your craft? I don't know what I'm doing. I just want to be happy. But I know I have to keep making music.