"After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art."
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"Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality."
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"Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged - will ultimately judge himself - on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort."
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"All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things"
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"Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take."
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"I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?"
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"Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation."
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"Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal."
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"Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity."
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"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so."
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"Everyone's goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others."
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"Networking that matters is helping people achieve their goals."
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"If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future."
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"Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute."
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"If you don't have time to invest in a goals program is it possible that you don't have time because you don't have a goals program?"
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"I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual."
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"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal."
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"Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object."
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"One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant."
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"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal."
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