Goal Quotes - Page 146

The goal we have set for ourselves, which is to diversify our cooperation with China, is making progress.

We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

The goal should be to build a sustainable lifestyle business that does good for employees and customers - and that steadily builds wealth.

In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally as possible. How do I prove that I'm concentrating on myself? I prove it by doing something physical. I can bite myself. I can burn the hair off my chest. The goal? Yes, I have a body. I have this thing that people call the self. Maybe I can change the self.

Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing people's behavior in that space. I don't know if we know how to change that, but our goal is to make spaces for people rather than people being subservient to spaces.

Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.

I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

You'd have thought they'd have been on about Sir Elton John, and the fantastic goals David has scored which have got us through to the World Cup. But what they were really interested in was that I was holding a bag that had 'Sex' written on it. It's quite bizarre.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.

I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.

The whole goal with this thing [Ultra Natural] from the start was to really let rider's style define them and their line choice.

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job.

Honestly, my goals shift and change, as I move along.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

It's good to have an idea about what you want to do with your life before just doing things. If you have goals and dreams, it doesn't really matter if you achieve them, but if you have them it's much easier to not get lost. It's easier to make decisions.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds."