"One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary."
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"The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal."
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"Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities."
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"Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day."
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"Worry is negative goal setting."
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"The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes."
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"Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if you want to double your income, you simply have to double the quality and quantity of what you do for that income. Or you have to change activities and occupations so that what you are doing is worth twice as much."
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"Lack of planning is the cause of most failures."
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"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil."
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"Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop."
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"Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks."
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"Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself."
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"Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal."
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"The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes."
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"A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation"
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"Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!"
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"To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves."
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"Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning."
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"Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good.""
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