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"It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is."
"The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?"
"You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future."
"What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say."
"Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver."
"Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls."
"Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal."
"Completion is a goal, but we hope it is never the end."
"It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."
"On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal."
"The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace."
"For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal."
"As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development."
"The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state of mind and body."
"The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective."
"Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there."
"I wish more of the web had stayed nonprofit. But the advertising model took over and I think has delivered us to where we are, along with the development of content, which is designed to do nothing else but make you click on it or share it. And I think it's kind of a low goal for content, and I think that's taken us to our current abyss."
"It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way."
"Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives."
"Some people get certainty by working harder and saying I'm going to master something. Some people get certainty by lowering their expectations, going 'it will never work. And they lose their dreams, but they get their needs. The needs are not like goals. They're not like belief systems that are built into you."
