Quotes with goal-posts

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  • Curtis Carlson I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard I decided a handful of years ago that I just want to write songs that you can understand as soon as you put the record on. There's no need to veil what's happening in the song the way I used to.
    My goal as a songwriter now is to simply write some memorable turns of phrase.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jan Carlzon I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
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  • Mary Lou Retton I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.
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  • Bert Lance I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan 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.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Brigitte Bardot If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Ramana Maharshi If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Flores If our goal is to provide health care to our veterans, why does it need to be in the bricks and mortar of bureaucracy of the VA? Why can't you give them an insurance card and let them go to a health care provider of their choice?
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bill Gurley If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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