George Pelecanos Quotes

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He knew what he wanted to do. He knew the way he thought things should be, and Mr. Harinton was proving that other people--even adults--could feel the same way. Nicholas had something to aim for now. He might not know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but he knew with absolute certainty how he wanted to be.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

Find your purpose, find your voice.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

I think in life we want to challenge ourselves.

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.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

I decided to write books, just to prove to myself that I was still alive, if nothing else.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

I did find my direction at an early age.

It's hard for me... If I don't have a project going, I don't feel like I'm connected to anything. I don't even think it's that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.

I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.