Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Donald Rumsfeld

A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.

Dwayne Johnson

The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.

Dwayne Johnson

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Dwayne Johnson

My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.

Claudia Schiffer

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

Claude Bernard

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Dalai Lama

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Dalai Lama

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage in because it is somehow right in itself but because, like ourselves, all others desire to be happy and to avoid suffering. Given that this is a natural disposition, shared by all, it follows that each individual has a right to pursue this goal. Accordingly, I suggest that one of the things which determines whether an act is ethical or not is its effect on others' experience or expectation of happiness.

Dalai Lama

Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.

Dinesh D'Souza

While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

Derek Theler

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

Dermot Mulroney

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

Derek Sivers

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

Dave Thomas

Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we’re all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers’ expectations every day.

Danica Patrick

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

Daisaku Ikeda

Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.

Daisaku Ikeda

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

Daniela Ruah

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

Dan Millman

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

Cliff Stearns

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

David Simon

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

David Livingstone

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

David Hawkins

The goal of society in general is to succeed in the world, whereas the goal of enlightenment is to transcend beyond it.

Corey Dillon

You want to be around guys that you share the same goal with and guys who are thirsty and ready to hunt and get victories.

Corey Haim

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

Curtis Martin

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.

Dave Eggers

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.

David Limbaugh

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

David Belle

So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.

Deepak Chopra

The goal actually, is to wake up now.