Quotes About Goal

At the simplest level, any particular expression of the immunity to change provides us a picture of how we are systematically working against the very goal we genuinely want to achieve.

A reason or a purpose is a combination of wants and don't wants.

I look at an objective,' answered Vasili, 'and I do my best to analyse the problems inherent in reaching it.

The statement "To travel is better than to arrive" comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive. For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one.

This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.

Quality isn't a substance. Neither is it a method. It's outside of both. If one builds a house using the plumb-line and spirit-level methods he does so because a straight vertical wall is less likely to collapse and thus has higher Quality than a crooked one. Quality isn't method. It's the goal toward which method is aimed.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them. Someone else gets to clean that up and it's not a very glamorous or interesting job. You have to depress for a while before you can get down to doing it. Then, once you have depressed into a really low-key mood, it isn't so bad.

This book offers another, more serious alternative to material success. It's not so much an alternative as an expansion of the meaning of "success" to something larger than just getting a good job and staying out of trouble. And also something larger than mere freedom. It gives a positive goal to work toward that does not confine.

In a community coursed through by energies every road leads to a worthwhile goal, provided one doesn't hesitate or reflect too long. Targets are short-term, but since life is short too, results are maximized, which is all people need to be happy, because the soul is formed by what you accomplish, whereas what you desire without achieving it merely warps the soul. Happiness depends very little on what we want, but only on achieving whatever it is.

The path is the goal. In other words, finding your path in life is your goal in life.

If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be focused, not balanced.

Without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

If the donkey could see the whole picture, it might rethink its choice to chase the carrot.

Con ella podría medir y saber en dónde me encuentro en relación con mi objetivo de volverme independiente en lo económico.

I've learned that, without a strong reason or purpose, anything in life is hard.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STRONG REASON, THERE IS NO SENSE READING FURTHER. IT WILL SOUND LIKE TOO MUCH WORK.

Its wonderful to have ambition.

shouldn't. I must get out all my ambitions

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Art?k derslerimle çok daha fazla ilgileneceÄŸim, dedi Anne keyifle, çünkü bir amac?m var. Bay Allan hayatta herkesin bir amac? olmas? ve içtenlikle onun peÅŸine düÅŸmesi gerektiÄŸini söylüyor. Yaln?zca, sayg?n bir amaç olmas?na dikkat etmeliymiÅŸiz.

The target is everywhere.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Nikolaos had killed Phillip and bitten me to prove how powerful she was. I bet she thought I'd be scared absolutely shitless of her. She was right on that. But I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.