Jack Ma Quotes

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.

I gotta do what make me happy.

Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.

I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

I started music to be myself - to release and express - so I have to make sure that I'm staying true to me and making myself happy.

My career is important but it's not the be-all and end-all of my life.

I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.

I just want to do something that I feel makes a difference.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

In the end, the important thing is that you decide where you will be happy and where you can do well, to show that as well as being footballers, we are people.