Goal Quotes - Page 118

Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].

The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.

You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return to the moon? Or have we blazed that trail? Shouldn't we help other nations achieve this goal with their own resources but with our help?

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.

In rowing, you're always striving for that perfect stroke, that repetition, each one being as good as the last. Same thing with cooking. You can't say, 'Oh, I don't feel well, so I'm going to put out a crappy plate.'

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.