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"Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit.""
"That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit."
"My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value."
"As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known."
"My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor."
"I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally."
"A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals."
"The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre."
"I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals."
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole."
"My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time."
"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty."
"My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them."
"Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves."
"The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling."
"The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place"
"Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight."
"A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving."
"Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow."
"Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals."
