Quotes About Goals

Goals can also cause a myopia that makes it so we can't see other paths that are available to us, the other opportunities we might be able to pursue instead.

But just because there are a lot of benefits to setting goals doesn't mean that there isn't a downside to them as well. As you might already suspect, clearly defined finish lines should come with a warning: Danger, you may experience escalation of commitment.

Be picky about what you stick to. Persevere in the things that matter, that bring you happiness, and that move you toward your goals. Quit everything else, to free up those resources so you can pursue your goals and stop sticking to things that slow you down.

Progress along the way should count for something, but we discard it because goals are pass-fail, all-or-nothing, yes-or-no. There's no partial credit given.

But the goals we set are remarkably unresponsive to new information.

It's not just that we need to set more flexible goals. We ourselves also need to be more flexible in the way we evaluate success and failure.

Don't start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

There are so many things I want to do! Some are personal. Some are professional.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

Even if you don't become a professional athlete, the experience of working with a team, knowing how to set goals, and working every day to figure out how to accomplish those goals definitely gives you confidence to apply those same characteristics to other life challenges.

Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.

Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

We build programs with points in mind.

I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.

If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.

That's really the nature of how cults get you - by starting slow, promising to help you realize your goals.

I'm optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it's about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I'm physically active and devout - just not as Buddhistic as she was.