Quotes About Purpose

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

I always want to have children running around in the garden and so I don't know what I am going to do with myself once they're all grown up.

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

I think there's only one reason to write in any genre or to any particular age group: You are called to it. You think it'd be fun.

I like people who genuinely are looking for a project and not a job.

I have always felt the only reason to get married is to have children.

When you're getting older, you think about what you have to offer, and what's the point of your life.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I was born with the gift.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

You're gifted to do something.

My favorite scripture is, 'Your gifts make room for you.' It's something I tell people all the time.

God gives everyone gifts. You have to figure out what your gift is and use it to honor Him.

Action should always be about character and story, not a gimmick.

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.

I'm glad to have work.

Had acting not taken off, I would've been glad to become a teacher.

People used me, in a way, to achieve something, and I was glad of it. I was just doing my job.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.