Prabal Gurung Quotes

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

Everyone wants to get a piece of me.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.

Value can mean a price. Value can mean exclusivity. Value can mean, 'I can't get it anywhere else, and this is really something I want.'

When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.

I'm a luxury brand.

It's nice to be in demand.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

I've always wanted to see my name up in tights.

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's not paycheck at the end; it's more of a "whatever is left over" kind of situation. Also, it keeps me from thinking about my creativity as a business, which it is not. It should remain pure; that's one of the reasons I made music in the first place.

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

I think people kind of come up and go, "Why hasn't that person busted out?" Almost always at the end of career, what you find out is that either consciously or subconsciously success hasn't happened because that person hasn't chosen for it to happen. Either through walking away because it wasn't the life they wanted or through self-sabotaging because they weren't ready.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals.

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel.

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.