Patrick Pichette Quotes

I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.

I have to have a passion in my life.

I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling.

If you're going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

If I wasn't a model, I don't know what I'd do, but I would be working just as hard at whatever it was.

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

Find something you're passionate about, and focus on it.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

I wouldn't change my life for anything. I am exactly where I want to be and have no plans to ever retire.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I've spent my life following my passion.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.