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Goal Quotes


"But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl."


"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."


"And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy."


"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."


"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."


"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."


"I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football."


"If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do."


"The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it."


"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."


"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."


"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal."


"You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions."


"I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal."


"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."


"But I it doesn't matter who scores the goals so long as we win."


"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness."


"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."


"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."


"I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system."


"Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals."


"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."


"The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal."


"I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism."
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