Quotes About Purpose

I've never worked for the sake of working. There's probably enough crap out there for me not to add to it.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

I'm not afraid of people; I'm afraid of not doing what God created me to do.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

There's only one reason we live. It's very simple. To find the creator. That's just my understanding.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

Cricket was my reason for living.

At 17, I realized that it's going to be a tough decision to make, but I had the clarity of thought to walk out of cricket and try my luck in acting.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

Perhaps crisis forces commonality of purpose on one another.

I always felt like if I lived in true authentic self-expression and lived in service and in support of many other people, I would be exempt from having to deal with yet another crisis in my life. I was wrong.

Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can't imagine when or why it would. If you're doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?

We aren't made to be worshipped as humans. I think that is why we see so many great artists crumble, because as humans, we are made to serve each other.

You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.

I stopped acting, as I was not curious about it anymore. I was not passionate about acting.

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a blessing; it's not a curse.