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Quotes About Goal

My goal in wrestling was always to take people on a journey to get a reaction and make people feel like they had seen something special. Thankfully, I get reminded of that every day.
~ Mick Foley
At 22 years old, I tattooed 'family' on my wrist to not lose sight of my true goal.
~ Scooter Braun
So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.'
~ Myles Munroe
In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.
~ Darin Strauss
I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.
~ George Pelecanos
My husband, a.k.a. Swede, and I both come from athletic backgrounds, so once we identified the goal - get book published - we attacked it. At any given time, I would have my writing out in 25 various forms - either contests, mentoring critiques, agent/publisher queries, etc.
~ Kresley Cole
Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie
~ Gretchen Rubin
I'd noticed idly that a lot of people use the term goal instead of resolution, and one day in December, it struck me that this difference was in fact significant. You 'hit' a goal, you 'keep' a resolution.
~ Gretchen Rubin
And a sense of purpose is very important to happiness. But
~ Gretchen Rubin
Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process
~ Gretchen Rubin
AMBITION – Always preceded by "mad" when it lacks nobility.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Separation is itself an integral part of the unity of this world, of a global social practice split into reality and image. The social practice confronted by an autonomous spectacle is at the same time the real totality which contains that spectacle. But the split within this totality mutilates it to the point that the spectacle seems to be its goal.
~ Guy Debord
Die Gesellschaft, die auf der modernen Industrie beruht, ist nicht zufällig oder oberflächlich spektakulär, sie ist zutiefst spektaklistisch. Im Spektakel, dem Bild der herrschenden Wirtschaft, ist das Endziel nichts, die Entwicklung alles. Das Spektakel will es zu nichts anderem bringen als zu sich selbst.
~ Guy Debord
Consciousness of desire and desire for consciousness are the same project
~ Guy Debord
Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear it might prove an illusion like the urges and aspirations of waking life, which do not lead to any goal.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The most remarkable thing about man's dreams is that they all come true; this has always been the case, though no one would care to admit it. And a peculiarity of man's behaviour is that he is not in the least surprised when his dreams do come true; it is as if he had always expected nothing else. The goal to be reached and the determination to reach it are brother and sister, and slumber both in the same heart.
~ Halldor Laxness
Je?eli stosujemy przemoc jako ?rodek maj?cy prowadzi? do celu, cel ten czasami si? zmienia lub nigdy nie zostaje osi?gni?ty.
~ Hannah Arendt
Know what you need, and if it crosses your path, take it.
~ Hannah Tinti
Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.
~ Harlan Coben
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
~ Edmund Spenser
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
~ Edmund Spenser
You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that's the cherry on top. But you're looking for those three always.
~ Myles Garrett
It is every player's dream to play at a world tournament.
~ Mario Mandzukic
Any tournament you go to, you want to win it.
~ Martina Hingis