Goal Quotes - Page 169

My goal was to go to college and come out the best player.

It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

It is very hard, if not impossible," he wrote in his study, "to justify active management for most individual, taxable investors, if their goal is to grow wealth." And he said that those who still insist on an actively managed fund are almost certainly "deluding themselves.

I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in Haiti. As I say, I've tended to find these people - I mean, Saddam, I've never met or interviewed - but these other people to be rather disappointing. Their political goals were mundane. What they had working for them was opportunism, was very often cleverness and was ruthlessness.

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.

One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Increasing meaning and joy on the planet is the ultimate goal because within that space all evil is cast out.

Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.

My next goal is to be number one in the world.

My goal is to create a sustainable long-term business that, we're committed to print, we're rooted in print, but we're expanding into digital and into modernizing the way we sell to customers through e-commerce and things like that. And it requires different skill sets; it requires different ways of doing business.

Almost all major scientific projects today are huge collaborations, yet we still have this public obsession with the idea of the individual scientific genius. One of my goals as a science communicator is to celebrate the collaborative dimensions of science, which I think will be critical for facing the ecological and resource challenges ahead. In a sense, we are all corals now.

A democratic Europe of nation states could be a force for liberty, enterprise and open trade. But, if creating a United States of Europe overrides these goals, the new Europe will be one of subsidy and protection

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.

Whatever goal you set for yourself, conquer it.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.