Quotes About Purpose

I really love to act; I love everything about it. I've never had this addiction to being known. I mean, sure, if you go into acting, there's part of you that is saying, 'I want attention' but I was brought up to work to deserve attention, and it is the work, not the trappings that are important.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

Well, that's what it was bloody well designed to do, wasn't it?

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in many cases, the shell is essential. A locomotive without a shell would be nonfunctional.

I know that the designers that have me in their shows have me for a reason, I know that the designers that don't have me in their shows don't have me for a reason, and I accept either way.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Bhanurekhan never wanted to be an actress. She had different dreams and desires.

I want to die at my desk.

I'm desperate to work in football. I could make a lot more money doing other things but this is what I want to do.

Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.

I think there's a path cut for us, a destination mapped out. Everyone ends up where they're meant to be, and how they got there doesn't really matter.

I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.

Set ambitious goals and don't be afraid to declare and aim for them. You need to know where you want to go in order to get there. It is important to have a destination in mind.

Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.

I believe if you are destined to do something, things will definitely happen.

I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.

I was always just an ambitious kid from early. I always knew that I had a purpose and I was destined for something big, great.

When I first got into the sport, or first got into athletics, I always felt that sense of responsibility that I was destined for something bigger, that I was going to do something major.

I was destined to make people laugh.

I always knew that I was destined for something big in this world.

You achieve only as much you are destined to.

I want to destroy the old concept that a company is a place where one sacrifices time for the sake of money.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.