Quotes About Goals

I nursed Mason for 14 months and Penelope for 16, and I loved it. It was built-in time that the two of us could share alone every day. I didn't have any goals or expectations.

I wanted to become president, and I wanted to become an astronaut. Because I was really good at math.

I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I've aged, the more I'm like, well, maybe I'm not that ambitious.

Having been a mayor, we prioritized based on where we want our city and our country to go.

My goals all along were to win state and play in the McDonald's All-American game. I'm happy I was able to accomplish those things.

I don't know what my ambitions are until they turn up really but I'd love to work with Shane Meadows, I know that much!

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

I don't think you sit there as a young boy thinking you want a full set of medals, you just want to achieve something.

I am not running after gold medals; I am running after time. And once I get that, gold medals will run after me.

Every New Years, one of my major resolutions is to drink more water.

Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'

I just want to make $100 million and retire.

I had a basic plan for my life. The plan was - 20s: make money; 30s: have family; and 40s: run for something and do politics. When I retired, I wanted to be a teacher.

I was more eager to lose weight than almost anything in retirement.

When I became an actor, I knew that there were only two ways of going about it - either I become an actor who has expectations, or the reverse of it.

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

I'm all about trying to accomplish more in my life as best I can, be it in the ring or outside the ring.

I think I got to the point where a lot of runners end up: You plan another race so you have something to focus on and that's what I do - I focus.

I'm just trying to score as many runs as I can each time. The more I can make over a hundred, the better.

My job is to score runs and hopefully I can continue to do that.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

I just continue to work on what I want to work on, and I'm not rushing to achieve anything, really.