Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.
~By James Harvey Robinson ~
And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
~By Todd Barry ~
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.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.
~By Mike Hawkins ~
We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
~By Jim Rohn ~
If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.
~By Gerhard Schroder ~
Our goal should be to achieve joy.
~By Ana Castillo ~
Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.
~By Vito Fossella ~
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
~By Saskya Pandita ~
Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal.
~By Kazimir Malevich ~
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
~By Eliot Engel ~
But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
~By John Hutton ~
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
~By George E. Pataki ~
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
~By Dorothy Stratten ~
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
~By Bai Ling ~
You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
~By Damien Hirst ~
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
~By Edie Falco ~
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
~By Ike Skelton ~
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
~By Max Eastman ~
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
~By Joe Baca ~
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~By Emma Thompson ~
My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
~By Donny Osmond ~
It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.
~By Mark Lawrenson ~
Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.
~By Larry Dixon ~
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.
~By Jonah Lomu ~
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
~By Gary Wills ~
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
~By Charles de Lint ~
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.
~By Alan Thicke ~
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
~By Brian Tracy ~
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
~By John Baldacci ~
I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
~By Larry Dixon ~
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~By Jose Eduardo Dos Santos ~
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
~By Michael Phelps ~
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.
~By Stephen F. Lynch ~
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
~By Andrew Johnson ~
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
~By Rene Daumal ~
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
~By Allen Klein ~
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
~By U. Thant ~
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
~By Les Brown ~
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
~By Michelle Obama ~
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
~By Joel McHale ~
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
~By Princess Diana ~
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
~By Helene Deutsch ~
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
~By Victoria Beckham ~
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
~By Michael Strahan ~
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
~By Fiona Apple ~
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.
~By Geraldine Ferraro ~
One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.
~By Paul Parker ~
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle.
~By Lee Haney ~
But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
My goal was never to get re-elected.
~By Scott McCallum ~
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
~By Robbie Fowler ~
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
~By John Dewey ~
We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.
~By Fred Thompson ~
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
~By Benjamin E. Mays ~
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
~By Ted Williams ~
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.
~By Robert Conklin ~
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
~By Maya Lin ~
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
~By Bill Richardson ~
Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.
~By John Hutton ~
As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.
~By Montel Williams ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.
~By Peter Bart ~
Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
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