Quotes About Purpose

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.

Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.

Make up your mind what you want to do, and go and get it. Make sure it is not at the expense of anyone else, though.

If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.

I think we run into issues when our online brands are not rooted in who we are, and I think we need to have explicit discussions with ourselves about who we want to be, what we want to represent, and how we want to express that.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

When I was a kid, I remember my parents would say, 'Baseball is what you do, but that's not who you are' - like that might be my job, but that's not the end-all, be-all. I feel like I might even be able to use it to help other people or open some doors or explore more opportunities.

Wrestling is all I've known since I was 17 so it's time I let myself focus on other things and explored other parts of myself.

I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living. I hope to do much more of it, so I can contribute my share to the world.

I'm not a writer just to be a writer. I want to say something that really needs expressing.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

You don't play extra guys just to play them. You play 'em because they can help you in some way.

I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!