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Goal Quotes

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

Larry Elder, American Journalist

"The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh."

Matthew Perry, American Actor

Goal, Nothing, Trying, World

"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

Goal, Goals, Song, Trying

"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."

John L. Phillips, American Astronaut

Goal, Goals, Career

"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."

Gustav Heinemann, German Politician

Goal, Democracy, Youth

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

Max Eastman, American Author

Goal, Land, Mind, Play

"Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go."

Lech Walesa, Polish Activist

Goal, Goals, Strength, Awareness, Cause

"America is the last great goal of these migrations."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

"It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club."

Robert Laurent, American Sculptor

"I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name."

Mary-Kate Olsen, American Actress

Goal, Goals, Company, Day, Film

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."

Mary Catherine Bateson, American Scientist

"But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth."

John Hutton, English Educator

Goal, Goals, Growth, Jobs

"When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help."

Paul Allen, American Businessman

Goal, Attention, Help, Media

"Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible."

Luc Montagnier, French Scientist

Goal, Disease, Will

"My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team."

Sasha Cohen, American Athlete

Goal, Past, Training

"We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal."

Serena Williams, American Athlete

"Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal,."

Wally Schirra, American Astronaut

"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."

Albert Wynn, American Politician

"At the beginning of the season, I set my goal to see if I can lead the league in scoring, because I feel I have that kind of ability. A lot of guys say it, but it's not really in their grasp. I feel that's really in my grasp."

Paul Pierce, American Athlete

Goal, Ability, Beginning

"It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead."

Mark Lawrenson, English Athlete

"That's the goal, to survive your gift."

Itzhak Perlman, Israeli Musician

"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."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

"Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

Goal, End, May, Perfection

"I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal."

Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian Statesman

Goal, Fantasy, May

"I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become more individual, express more of me. That's my goal. These songs are steps along that way."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

Goal, Singing, Songs, Want

"Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

Goal, Ability, Athletes

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."

Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

"An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave."

Robert Anton Wilson, American Writer

"My goal is just to become a better comedian."

Ron White, American Comedian

"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."

Umberto Guidoni, Italian Astronaut

Goal, Goals, Building, Now, Space

"The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals."

Kit Williams, British Author

"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."

Umberto Guidoni, Italian Astronaut

"Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that."

Teddy Sheringham, English Athlete

"Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim ."

Eileen Caddy, English Celebrity

Goal, Deep, Will

"The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point."

Jurgen Klinsmann, German Athlete

"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."

Russell Baker, American Journalist

Goal, Defeat, Man

"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

"The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note."

Michael Strahan, American Athlete

Goal, Winning, Fact

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

Charles de Lint, Canadian Writer

Goal, Leading, Road

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."

Brian Tracy, American Author

Goal, Blessings, Children, Will

"25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that."

Mark Messier, Canadian Athlete

Goal, Night, Trying, Years

"Forget goals. Value the process."

Jim Bouton, American Athlete

Goal, Goals, Forget, Value

"You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand."

Jeff Foxworthy, American Comedian

"Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally."

Ken Hill, British Playwright

Goal, Composers

"Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live."

John Dewey, American Philosopher

Goal, Goals, Man

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

"I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal."

John Burns, English Activist

Goal, Practice, Running, Socialism

"My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run."

Dennis Conner, American Athlete

"Our ultimate goal is extensible programming (EP). By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system."

Niklaus Wirth, Swiss Scientist

Goal, Programming

"A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind."

Kylie Minogue, Australian Musician

Goal, Mind, Years

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