"Thy goal, the road thou choosest are thy fate."
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"People are pissed off about the seemingly impossible goal of social mobility. their proposed solution is to take the wheels off the cart."
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"Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future."
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"That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person."
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"Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else."
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"To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage."
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"Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you."
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"All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation."
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"You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values."
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"Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
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"The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals."
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"Clarity precedes mastery. Craft clear and precise plans/goals/deliverables. And then block out all else."
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"The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do."
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"Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission."
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"Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done."
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"The fundamental purpose of design thinking is to produce something that does not now exist. And so it is with integrative thinking - in the face of conflicting models, it seeks to generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a model that contains elements of each but is superior to both. So the goals are aligned completely."
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"Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal."
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"What is important is that one strives to achieve a goal."
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"We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests."
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"It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth."
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