Quotes About Milestones

A successful MBO system needs only to answer two questions: 1.  Where do I want to go? (The answer provides the objective.) 2.  How will I pace myself to see if I am getting there? (The answer gives us milestones, or key results.)

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.

terrible twos

we live for the quiet, intimate moments that mark not our calendars but our hearts: The day we marry. The days our children are born. Their first step. Their first word. Their first day of school. And when our children grow, we remember those moments with a touch of melancholy: the day they get their driver's license, the day we drive them to college, the day they marry, and the day they have their children.

This means that days 1, 2 and 3 are the most important days in getting off to a good start in hitting the next milestones––days 5, 8, 13 and then day 21.

We don't think enough about the steps required to achieve those ends, and when we do we underestimate how much time and effort they will take. But thinking only about looming deadlines and short-term goals is a mixed bag as well. We focus on what is feasible, on the steps to take right now, but we forget or downplay long-term goals. So we direct our efforts toward achievable milestones even when they undermine our ability to reach our ultimate destination.

Small victories lead to large victories

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken

Three McCrae weddings in less than a year," he commented, as if casually discussing the weather. Then he grinned. "Is it catching?

In reality, the events that we label as outcomes are never really endpoints. Instead, they are artificially imposed milestones, just as the ending of a movie is really an artificial end to what in reality would be an ongoing story. And depending on where we choose to impose an "end" to a process, we may infer very different lessons from the outcome.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

I walked all those miles, I learned all those lessons. It's as if my new life was the gift I got at the end of a long struggle.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24.

I'm your regular Gen-Xer - married at 22, had my first child at 23 and my second at 26.

I'm really thankful to everyone who has been part of my journey.

I have ten marathons under my belt, including four New York races and one Boston.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.