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"Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear."
"I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style."
"what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere."
"What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real."
"God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!"
"Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing."
"With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way."
"...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself."
"It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them."
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim."
"We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal."
"Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead."
"Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey."
"When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success."
"...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain."
"Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace."
"Our goal is self-transcendence"
"Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal."
"A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else."
"Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal"
