"When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can."
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"To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals."
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"...if we are to make significant progress on meeting these Goals and stay true to the promise the world made to build a better, fairer world for all, there is no time to lose in putting in place the necessary policies and resources needed to achieve these aims."
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"Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist."
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"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."
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"The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy."
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"If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed."
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"Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do."
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"When you regularly take continuous action toward your most important goals, you activate the Momentum Principle of success. This principle says that although it may take tremendous amounts of energy to overcome inertia and get started initially, it then takes far less energy to keep going."
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"We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform."
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"Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace."
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"The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal."
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"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person."
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"The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges."
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"True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge."
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"A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it."
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"Every day, do something that is truly important in moving you toward your goals. You must choose to invest your time in the important steps. When you take charge of your time, you take charge of your life. How you spend your time reflects your priorities."
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"I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal."
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"Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement."
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"I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me."
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