"Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked."
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"I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better."
"To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have."
"We`re not going to have a backlash. We`re going to build a consensus. And I live in the real world, not the kind of fantasy goals that we would all like, but we would never achieve if we go about it in the blunderbuss fashion that your question would assume."
"I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal."
"After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal."
"I say that when you have perceived or attained the goal, compromises, renunciations, do not exist. If you have seen the goal, compromise ceases to exist. It is then a question of a different attitude."
"I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people."
"Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process."
"One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams."
"Set measurable goals, measure relative to competition."
"Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites."
"The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement."
"Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?"
"The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'"
"I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal."
"It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others."
"Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams."
"I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy."
"My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person."