Quotes About Goal

The differential phrasing might seem minor, but it is critical to achieving the company's unitization goal. Providing advice puts a person in a merging state of mind, which stimulates a linking of one's own identity with another party's.

There are good reasons for the superiority of if/when-then plans: the specific sequencing of elements within the plans can help us defeat the traditional enemies of goal achievement. The "if/when-then" wording is designed to put us on high alert for a particular time or circumstance when a productive action could be performed. We become prepared, first, to notice the favorable time or circumstance and, second, to associate it automatically and directly with desired conduct.

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

The purpose of life is to have a life with purpose.

The purpose of life is life of a purpose.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose

Refactoring is a lot like solving a Rubik's cube. There are lots of little steps required to achieve a large goal. Each step enables the next.

He went on to explain that "the greatest merit of Chernyshevsky lies not only in showing that any right-minded and truly decent person must be a revolutionary, but also something still more important: he showed what sort of person a revolutionary should be, what rules of conduct he should follow, how he should proceed to his goal, and by what means he should attain it."[18]

teleological engineering.

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power. What is dissipated, divided, and distended rots and falls to the ground. The bigger it bloats, the harder it falls.

Knowing what you want to accomplish in the end will help you weed out the essential from the nonessential.

What is bloated beyond its proportions inevitably collapses. The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion.

The mind must not wander from goal to goal, or be distracted by success from its sense of purpose and proportion. What is concentrated, coherent, and connected to its past has power.

Understand: the more you want the prize, the more you must compensate by examining what getting it will take.

prize isn't worth the arrow

A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.