My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
~By Steve Wozniak ~
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 ~
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
~By John Abizaid ~
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
~By Paul J. Meyer ~
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
~By Illeana Douglas ~
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
~By Kristin Davis ~
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
~By Jaromir Jagr ~
Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
~By Viggo Mortensen ~
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
~By Alfred A. Montapert ~
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
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 ~
Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.
~By Ian Walker ~
Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
~By Maya Lin ~
It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
~By Mike Pence ~
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
~By Jean Piaget ~
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 ~
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
~By David Joseph Schwartz ~
You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.
~By Dave Eggers ~
Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
~By Gustav Heinemann ~
I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.
~By Kiana Tom ~
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
~By Richard M. Hunt ~
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
God created me to delight people with my goals.
~By Romario ~
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
~By Janet Jackson ~
I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
~By Peter Shilton ~
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
~By Paul Robeson ~
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.
~By Albert Wynn ~
Your best penalty killer is your goalie.
~By Dave Allison ~
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
~By Avery Brundage ~
Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
~By Jurgen Habermas ~
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
~By Al Lopez ~
I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
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 ~
Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.
~By John Boehner ~
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
~By Jim Rohn ~
From where I am sitting much of the country now sees the President the way I have seen him since the campaign. He is an ambitious leftist, with little understanding of economics, and with far-reaching goals to create significant and irreversible growth of government and redistribution of wealth through dramatic changes in tax, regulatory, and spending policies.
~By Charles W. Calomiris ~
You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
~By Helmut Kohl ~
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.
~By Frank Shorter ~
As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
~By Dorothy Height ~
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
~By Sid Caesar ~
It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good.
~By Shannon Miller ~
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
~By Saul Bellow ~
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
~By Robert Collier ~
I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
~By Chris Chocola ~
The Arthritis Prevention, Control and Cure Act of 2005 is bipartisan legislation directing funding and promoting education and research toward the goal of preventing, treating and curing arthritis.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
~By Hans Kung ~
We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina.
~By Michel Patini ~
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.
~By Bobby Orr ~
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
~By Greg Lake ~
Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
~By John Carmack ~
It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.
~By Mark Lawrenson ~
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Our goal should be to achieve joy.
~By Ana Castillo ~
It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
~By Denis Law ~
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
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 ~
I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor.
~By Lauren Graham ~
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
~By Albert Einstein ~
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.
~By Mark Lawrenson ~
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
~By River Phoenix ~
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
~By Eugen Herrigel ~
My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.
~By Just Fontaine ~
Forget goals. Value the process.
~By Jim Bouton ~
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
~By Mila Kunis ~
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
~By John Dewey ~
Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
~By Angela Merkel ~
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
~By Cecil B. DeMille ~
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
~By Jewel ~
What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.
~By Renny Harlin ~
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~By Brian Tracy ~
I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.
~By Bonnie Blair ~
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 ~
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
~By Michael Porter ~
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.
~By Jennifer Granholm ~
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
~By Alexander Herzen ~
I think people with open minds will observe the way we do things and realize that our goal is to have successful, happy, productive adults, and they will take our ideas and implement them elsewhere for their own children.
~By Daniel Greenberg ~
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
~By Haim Ginott ~
Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.
~By LeBron James ~
My goal was to do the best job I could in governing the state of Wisconsin, in some cases making very tough decisions to have to bring our spending in line with the resources we had at the state level.
~By Scott McCallum ~
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