"It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow."
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"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it."
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"Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."
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"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under."
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"The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals."
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"The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it."
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal"
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"Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives."
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"Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae."
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"My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal."
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"Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise."
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"As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal."
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"It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal."
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"We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."
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"Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you"
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"Everyone talks about the forwards, the players when they are scoring goals. But sometimes I look for the complete player not just the players who score but those who can pass."
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"The goal of evolution is self - conquest"
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"I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal."
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"The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender."
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