Sudha Murty Quotes

That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

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

My life is better with every year of living it.

The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

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

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

The will of man is his happiness.

I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.