Quotes About Goals

Success in life is to be measured by the goals you've set yourself.

Success in life is to be measured by the goals you've set yourself. There are tens of thousands of new theorems published every year the world over, but no more than a handful per century that make history!

THE POWER OF DREAMS—AND WHY YOU SHOULD RECORD THEM

Consider three goals that a political pundit might have. One goal might be to open the minds of people on the other side. Another goal might be to open the minds of people on the pundit's own side. A third goal might be to close the minds of people on the pundit's own side. Nearly all the punditry that appears in the various media today serves only the third goal.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

Every morning you have two options. Continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.

Dreams are for the dreamers. Goals are for achievers.

It might seem like I was handcuffing myself by setting such specific goals, but it was actually just the opposite: I found it liberating. Knowing exactly where I wanted to end up freed me totally to improvise how to get there.

Thus, psychologist Carl Jung noted, "what is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age.

bucket list, however: it makes us focus on the limits of time and thus on how to use time well. The idea of the bucket list is to make sure you don't get to the end and say, "I'm not ready to die! I've never ridden in a hot-air balloon!

Only a shift to intrinsic goals will give you what you really want, and prepare you to get on the second curve, which requires relationships and sharing wisdom in the spirit of love.

Reading interviews with other people, I see them say, 'All I want is for our band to be massive', but it was never an ambition of ours to be in a band that's this big. That's so far from how my mind works that I find it puzzling. There's nothing wrong with being ambitious, but we're not.

To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning.

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there's about one or two seconds where you're not sure.

You should never quit your day job.

I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that.

How many points, how many races you can win, how many times you be on the podium. That's the name of the game.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a footballer and racing driver, like all kids.

As far as my goals are concerned, Eli Drake needs to be a household name any and everywhere it can be. Aside from that I want to rack up championships.

Being a beauty queen was never on my radar.