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"Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever."
"The goal of becoming more consistent with your core authentic self is a much stronger motivator than "I need to lose 30 pounds.""
"Most people achieve their goals and are like, "Is this all there is?" We are supposed to keep growing so we have something to get. What we get never makes us happy. You play yourself when you forget that."
"Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on."
"To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis."
"When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job."
"Honestly, my goals shift and change, as I move along."
"You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket."
"The goal of prayer is not just the sharing of our ideas, but also of ourselves."
"[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning."
"The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies."
"We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one."
"Every journey has an end."
"No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction."
"Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals."
"The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success."
"Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences."
"If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway."
"The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate."
"The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts."
