Goal Quotes - Page 181

I guess I accidentally became a part of history. Honestly, when you're young and you're a designer, you have a goal, but that is not the kind of goal that you even think it's possible to achieve.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

When you’re young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.

Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

I am not failing - I am growing! Do you have the ability to reframe failure as growth in order to achieve your goals?

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

I'm realistic. Getting to everybody is not the goal here. The people you can affect in any way - that's who you want to get to.

I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I just knew I wanted to be in this industry telling stories and doing this for a job. I thought my path was going to be as a writer, but I'm pretty happy doing it as an actor.

I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time. And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things. I want to be the most durable person on the planet.

One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?

My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date.

People who don't make goals end up working for those who do.

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!