Paula Patton Quotes

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.

I like to be challenged.

I love what I do. I love the invigoration of doing things I haven't done before.

I feel life becomes very boring when you don't have challenges in life.

I want to go a team where it'll be challenging for me.

I always want a challenge - always.

I just want to keep going as long as I can. I'm getting older, and I want to keep growing, and I feel pretty excited about what I do. Whether it's true or not, I believe I'm doing better as a writer, which is really nice.

Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

I just want to do something challenging.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn't found interesting things to do.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.

If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.