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• The most important thing about goals is having one.

  Geoffrey F. Abert

  Topics in Goal, Inspirational

• Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.

  Russell Simmons

  Topics in Goal

• Obstacles are the things we see when we take our eyes off our goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Obstacles

• You’re always playing the game to reach the ultimate goal.

  Tony Romo

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Ultimate, Reach

• Aim higher in case you fall short.

  Suzanne Collins

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Aim

• Sometimes you don’t need a goal in life, you don’t need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you’re going to do next!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Topics in Goal, Life

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

  Derek Sivers

  Topics in Experience, Goal

• The past isn’t going to get you to your goal.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Goal, Past

• When you start out with goals – mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically – you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

  Dave Brubeck

  Topics in Goal

• This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

  Ashley Benson

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Crazy, Acceptance

• I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman – those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I’m going to take the steps to get there.

  Ashley Benson

  Topics in Goal, Love

  Tags in Win

• And I didn’t grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal – to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn’t have the novels, maybe I’d be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.

  David Benioff

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Frustrated

• I never want to feel like I’ve achieved my goal. It’s like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it’s a good season. They feel like they’ll be punished.

  Heath Ledger

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Good, Season, Punished

• My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Struggle, Young

• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent’s goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Football, Through

• Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Destination, Reach

• So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Topics in Goal, Life, Mother

  Tags in Taught, Started, Later

• My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it’s the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

  Chris Rock

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Prince, Show

• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  Dan Deacon

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Time

• The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I’m interested in and then I decide I’m going to explore it. I don’t know where the characters are going to go, I don’t know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that’s the way to keep it alive.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Without, Kind, Keep