"Tech companies like to set stretch goals, like we'll try to be the best company for women and minorities, and we have to ask, "What does that really mean?" By setting a goal like that, it makes all of us pay attention to that idea and try to innovate around it, to understand the underpinnings. One piece is being transparent, saying "Hey, we have an issue, we're open to innovation on it." It's important for innovation to prove that more diversity makes better products."
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"My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books."
"Professional accountants should use that influence to encourage the companies they serve to think long term and integrate sustainable development goals into their accounting, such as by including a natural capital account, which I have heard is gaining ground."
"I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about."
"In South Africa one in four women have AIDS. When you are there it is shocking. So many people are dying from the disease and the same number are getting the disease each year. My main goal was to learn and call attention to some of the things that were happening."
"Total victory is the only acceptable goal in a mind-control war because humanity is diminished so long as a single mind remains trapped in superstition [supernatural religion] by programming or choice."
"To debate political objectives, views, and goals is the most American thing conceivable."
"Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life."
"Don't ever think it's too late for you or that you're too old to dream and have goals."
"When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me."
"Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something."
"Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content."
"I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life."