Goal Quotes - Page 151

Women's childhood relationships with their fathers are important to them all their lives. Regardless of age or status, women who seem clearest about their goals and most satisfied with their lives and personal and family relationships usually remember that their fathers enjoyed them and were actively interested in their development.

The only goal is the decency of means.

Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal for which we are striving, is as vague and obscure as communion with the saints or the coming of the Messiah.

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart.

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

[I] was always my dream to attend the Art Institute. I have always had this zeal to become the best that I can be and I saw that this institution will act as an avenue to me achieving that goal. I applied to the institution and got accepted based on my impressive portfolio.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

The Goal can disappear From the mind's sight But not From the heart's vision.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate.

Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.

What interests me is the following paradox: of how, precisely in our liberal societies, where no one can even imagine a transcendental cause for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the goal of my life is the realization of all my potential, fulfillment of my innermost desires, whatever you want.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

If someone's performance is down we do not say, 'Hey pick up your things here.' We do not yell and scream at them, we say, 'Are you okay?' The idea of putting our financials goal aside for one minute to express empathy for the human being for that work and saying, 'Are you okay?' That is part of the sacrifice.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.