The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals. ~By Peggy Fleming ~
Goals determine what you're going to be. ~By Julius Erving ~
Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself. ~By Ryan White ~
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint. ~By Garry Trudeau ~
I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing. ~By Lou Brock ~
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place. ~By James Naismith ~
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 ~
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. ~By Fred Allen ~
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals. ~By Jessica Savitch ~
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 ~
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. ~By Maria Bartiromo ~
Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. ~By Denis Waitley ~
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. ~By W. Clement Stone ~
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. ~By David Joseph Schwartz ~
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 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 ~
The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won't veto any of these things. ~By Mitch McConnell ~
I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best. ~By Lucas Grabeel ~
Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals. ~By Christopher Dodd ~
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus. ~By Vernon Jordan ~
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different. ~By Linus Torvalds ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some people are so afraid of getting to know themselves that they live and define their lives through the dreams and goals of others. ~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. ~By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro ~
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. ~By Trent Reznor ~
One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to. ~By Paul Parker ~
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers. ~By Les Brown ~
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ~By Dean Koontz ~
It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime. ~By Linda M. Godwin ~
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 ~
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ~By Hans Kung ~
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ~By Les Brown ~
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. ~By Sid Caesar ~
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. 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 ~
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high. ~By Arne Jacobsen ~
The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals. ~By Johann Most ~
I have so many goals. ~By Tyra Banks ~
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. ~By Les Brown ~
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. ~By Marsha Sinetar ~
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 ~
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. ~By Lee Haney ~
Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime. ~By Peter Bondra ~
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. ~By Brian Tracy ~
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 ~
I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals. ~By Peter Shilton ~
Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood. ~By Allen Weinstein ~
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. ~By Paul J. Meyer ~
Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning. ~By Alan Shearer ~
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 ~
I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do. ~By Thomas Muster ~
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles. ~By Emma Stone ~
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. ~By Ted Turner ~
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. ~By Willard Libby ~
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. ~By Denis Waitley ~
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. ~By Paul J. Meyer ~
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete. ~By Tammy Bruce ~
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 ~
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families. ~By Steve Kerr ~
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. ~By Ralph Marston ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ~By Isaiah Berlin ~
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song. ~By Sheryl Crow ~
There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities. ~By Robert Menendez ~
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. ~By Robert H. Schuller ~
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals. ~By Richard V. Allen ~
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. ~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. ~By Leonard Boswell ~
The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally. ~By Gerry Adams ~
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker. ~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country. ~By David Beckham ~
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. ~By Burt Rutan ~
We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people. ~By Michael Crapo ~
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding. ~By Alberto Salazar ~
God created me to delight people with my goals. ~By Romario ~
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. ~By Greg Anderson ~
I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship. ~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. ~By Brian Tracy ~
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list. ~By Edward Tufte ~
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. ~By Larry Bird ~
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. ~By Hannah More ~
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. ~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them. ~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun. ~By Debbie Meyer ~
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can. ~By Chris Evert ~
In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland. ~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ~By Jim Rohn ~
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ~By Yasser Arafat ~
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. ~By Jim Rohn ~
But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them. ~By Imran Khan ~
I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave. ~By Just Fontaine ~
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. ~By Robert H. Schuller ~
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 ~
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests. ~By Louis Farrakhan ~
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals. ~By Kit Williams ~
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 ~
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. ~By George S. Patton ~
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. ~By Drew Carey ~
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals. ~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this. ~By David Axelrod ~
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason. ~By Archibald Cox ~
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