Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Ferriss

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Sylvia Plath

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

Swami Vivekananda

To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection.

Ron White

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

Ron Francis

Every goal is a highlight film.

Tom Ford

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

Todd Helton

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.

Steve Garvey

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

Steve Backley

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

Steve Backley

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

Stephen Covey

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

Stephen Covey

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

Stephen Covey

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

Stephen Covey

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Tony Buzan

Definition is the companion of clarity; clarity is the guide to your goals.

Tommy Lasorda

My goal is to live to be 100.

Tom Wolfe

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

Steven Spielberg

I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.

Steve Nash

My goal is to eliminate positions where I can't function.

Steve Ballmer

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Stephen Keshi

I heard the South African 'keeper had been killed and I thought it was probably one of their former goalkeepers, but when I confirmed it was Senzo Meyiwa, I was shattered.

Stephen Hawking

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

Stephan James

That was my goal in portraying Jesse Owens: bringing that level of humanity so people could understand who he was as a person.

Stanley B. Prusiner

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Sigourney Weaver

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Sigmund Freud

The goal of all life is death

Shakti Gawain

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

Sergey Brin

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

Steven Pinker

Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek — why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a wet fish.

Steven Pinker

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

Robbie Fowler

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

Richard Stallman

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.