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"The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation."
"When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind."
"Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals."
"Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it."
"Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment."
"You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal."
"When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the burden, attained the true goal, totally destroyed the fetter of becoming, and is released through right gnosis - the thought doesn't occur to him that 'There is someone better than me,' or 'There is someone equal to me,' or 'There is someone worse than me.'"
"The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration."
"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."
"My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal."
"Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program."
"When the promise is clear, the price gets easy"
"When you view marketing from the vantage point of the guerrilla, you realize that it’s your opportunity to help your prospects and customers succeed. They want to succeed at earning more money, building their company, losing weight, attracting a mate, becoming more fit, or quitting smoking. You can help them. You can show them how to achieve their goal. Marketing is not about you. It’s about them. I hope you never forget that."
"Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal."
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo."
"Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?"
"Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal."
"Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal."
"Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal."
"If you make sure that you always work as hard as you can, on and off the ice, you will achieve your goals. It might not be instantly, it might not be next week, but you will get to where you want to be."
