Lifelong Pursuit Quotes

Photography is not something you retire from.

How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

I knew from when I was six that music would be my life, and I used to spend most of my time in the music room.

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

I don't ever see myself retiring totally from music, because I have a genuine love and passion for it.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table - mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.

I've made a lifelong attempt to involve myself deeper and deeper in my medium.

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

I don’t want to achieve my dream. I just want to pursue my dream until I die.

When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

If there's anything I can promise is that I'm gonna paint till the last breath.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.

Begin to know Him now, and finish never

I always, somehow, knew that I was going to dance.