Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.
Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.
You're going to be waiting a long time before you start seeing money from it. Just really sit with yourself and think "Why do I want to be a singer?" like really think it out and if you realize that you really need to stick with then then be really focused and have good intentions on why you're doing it and it will work out.
Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.
I didn't have a vision as in, This is where I'm going. I had a vision as in, "This is what I love to do."
FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful
A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.
Once the call of God comes to you, start going and never stop.
The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.
I like whatever I'm doing to have depth.
I think you have to enjoy the wins. If you're not enjoying the process, there's a problem. You're not doing it for all the right reasons.
There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
