Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
- Abdallah Ii
All these places I want to go don't exist without you. All my goals come from one place. You. You are my biggest goal. That's not wrong, is it?
- Jus Accardo
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- Scott Adams
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
- Peter Agre
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
- Muhammad Ali
My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
- Gary Allan
I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
- Gary Allan
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
- Mariah Carey
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
Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
- Janet Evanovich
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
- Mario Andretti
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
- Hermann Hesse
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.
- Hermann Hesse
and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teaching what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. That is why I am going on my waynot to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal aloneor die
- Hermann Hesse
Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky.
I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals
That's not ruthless?
- Lisa Kleypas
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
- Mary Kay Ash
My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared
- Mary Kay Ash
I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.
- Steve Maraboli
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
- Tracy Austin
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
- Lynda Barry
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
- Jack Black
If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
- Usain Bolt
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
- Ray Bradbury
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
- Michelle Branch
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better.
- Drew Brees
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
- William Brewster
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.
- Robert Frost
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
- Chuck Palahniuk
My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love and not say yes when I don't mean it.
- Sandra Bullock
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
- Taylor Caldwell
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
- Duane G Carey
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
- Hillary Clinton
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
- Bram Cohen
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
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
- John Coltrane
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
- Dennis Conner
To rally every black sheep is my goal.
- Julian Cope
My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.
- Fred Couples
My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.
- Olivia Cunning
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
- Harrison Ford
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
- Bobby Darin
I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
- Chris Daughtry
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
- Kristin Davis
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
- Taylor Dayne
My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.
- Giada De Laurentiis
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
- Gavin Degraw
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
- John Green
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
- Alan Dershowitz
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
- Kate Dicamillo
I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
- Larry Dixon
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
- Illeana Douglas
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
- Rick Warren
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
- Jeff Dunham
My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.
- Ashton Eaton
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
- Charles Edison
My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other's half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.
- Melissa D Ellis
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
- Boomer Esiason
If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
- Chris Evans
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.
- Michael Fassbender
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
- Glenn Frey
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
- Robert Fulghum
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
- Ana Gasteyer
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
- Henry Louis Gates
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.
- Roger Goodell
I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.
- Lucas Grabeel
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
- Greg Graffin
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school.
GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.
- Michael Grant
My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
- Chuck Grassley
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
- Michael Graves
My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
- Brian Austin Green
And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me.
- Bethany Griffin
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
- Mia Hamm
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- Stephen Hawking
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
- Jimi Hendrix
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
- Faith Hill
When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.
- Katie Hoff
My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
- Francois Hollande
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Evander Holyfield
My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
- Clara Hughes
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
- Dana Hussein
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
- Don Imus
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
- Michael Irvin
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
- A J Jacobs
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
- Jaromir Jagr
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
- Helmut Jahn
I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.
- Laurent Jalabert
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
- Lebron James
My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.
- Valerie Jarrett
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
- Mike Johanns
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
- Dwayne Johnson
I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
- Shawn Johnson
My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
- Leila Josefowicz
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
- Leila Josefowicz
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
- Nafisa Joseph
My goal is to have the most and the best of what I desire. And since I desire clones, I have to be the best me first.
- Jarod Kintz
If my name were Theodore Tiffany, my goal in life would be to meet and marry a woman named Tiffany Theodore. I adore that idea.
- Jarod Kintz
I always keep a Ziploc bag in my pocket, and wherever I go I fill up my bag with dirt, because my goal is to be the largest land holder in the world by the time I'm 42.
- Jarod Kintz
My goal is to do the most with the leastget the maximum output with the minimum input.
- Jarod Kintz
My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
- Anna Kendrick
But is a good guy worth the risk of losing sight of my goals? My dreams?
- Miranda Kenneally
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
- Nastassja Kinski
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
- Shirley Knight
One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
- Lydia Ko
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
- Olga Korbut
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
- Mila Kunis
My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.
- Rick Larsen
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
- Jude Law
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
- Nicholas Lea
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
I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.
- Mario Lemieux
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
- Maya Lin
In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
- Blanche Lincoln
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.
- Rebecca Lobo
My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.
- Julia Louisdreyfus
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
- Richard Macdonald
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.
All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
- Og Mandino
My goal was never to sell many records.
- Chuck Mangione
My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
- Marilyn Manson
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
- Brian Mcbride
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.
- Scott Mccallum
My goal was never to get re-elected.
- Scott Mccallum
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
- Reba Mcentire
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
- Joel Mchale
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
- Bode Miller
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
- Penelope Ann Miller
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
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
- George J Mitchell
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
- George J Mitchell
My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.
- Kathleen Norris
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
- Jerry Moran
Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It's like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: "Slow and steady wins the race." Just try a little, every day. You'll see.
- Holly Mosier
My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
- Jason Mraz
I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.
- Thomas Muster
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
- Ruud Van Nistelrooy
My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.
- Nerlens Noel
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
- Grover Norquist
APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.
- Paul Oakenfold
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
- Rafael Palmeiro
I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.
- Hayden Panettiere
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'
- Archie Panjabi
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
- Danica Patrick
I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
- Carly Patterson
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
- Jane Pauley
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
- Sally Pearson
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
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
- Michael Phelps
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
- John L Phillips
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
- Eden Phillpotts
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
legal investigation. As Clinton noted, My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.
- Steven Pinker
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
- Oscar Pistorius
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
- Katherine Anne Porter
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
- Richard Powers
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
- Jeff Probst
The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That's the
only way I function. That's all I am.
- Ayn Rand
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
- Trent Reznor
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
- Trent Reznor
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
- Scott Ritter
My goals are to hit.300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
- Mickey Rivers
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
- Donny Robinson
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
I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.
- Alex Rodriguez
God created me to delight people with my goals.
- Romario
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
- Stephen Root
We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
- Portia De Rossi
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."
Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
- Patrick Rothfuss
I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
- Maya Rudolph
my goal is to always come from a place of love...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker
- Rupaul
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
- Mathias Rust
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
- Elie Saab
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
- Jessica Savitch
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.
- Josh Schwartz
With practice I will eventually realize my goal; in the meantime, come to Paris and you will find me, headphones plugged tight in my external audio meatus, walking the quays and whispering, 'Has anything else been inserted into your anus? Has anything else been inserted into your anus?
- David Sedaris
My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.
- Hugh Shelton
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.
- Frank Shorter
Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.
- Jerry Spinelli
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
- Emma Stone
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
- Michael Strahan
The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
- Julius Streicher
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
- Danny Strong
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
- Michael Symon
Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!
Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!
Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals.
Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF!
Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.
- Natsuki Takaya
My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
- Niki Taylor
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
- Emma Thompson
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
- Benicio Del Toro
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
- Bubba Watson
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
- Rachel Weisz
My goal is just to become a better comedian.
- Ron White
I've reached my goal with snowboarding.
- Shaun White
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
- Andrew Wiles
For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.
- Jonny Wilkinson
I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.
- Jayson Williams
As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.
- Montel Williams
My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
- Venus Williams
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
- Venus Williams
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
- Frederick Wiseman
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.
- Alicia Witt
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
- Steve Wozniak
- Abdallah Ii
All these places I want to go don't exist without you. All my goals come from one place. You. You are my biggest goal. That's not wrong, is it?
- Jus Accardo
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- Scott Adams
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
- Peter Agre
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
- Muhammad Ali
My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
- Gary Allan
I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.
- Gary Allan
I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
- Mariah Carey
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
Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.
- Janet Evanovich
I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
- Mario Andretti
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
- Hermann Hesse
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.
- Hermann Hesse
and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teaching what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. That is why I am going on my waynot to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal aloneor die
- Hermann Hesse
Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky.
I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goals
That's not ruthless?
- Lisa Kleypas
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
- Mary Kay Ash
My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared
- Mary Kay Ash
I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.
- Steve Maraboli
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
- Tracy Austin
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
- Lynda Barry
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
- Jack Black
If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
- Usain Bolt
My goal is to entertain myself and others.
- Ray Bradbury
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
- Michelle Branch
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better.
- Drew Brees
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
- William Brewster
My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight.
- Robert Frost
My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
- Chuck Palahniuk
My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love and not say yes when I don't mean it.
- Sandra Bullock
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
- Taylor Caldwell
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
- Duane G Carey
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
- Hillary Clinton
Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
- Bram Cohen
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
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
- John Coltrane
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.
- Dennis Conner
To rally every black sheep is my goal.
- Julian Cope
My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.
- Fred Couples
My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.
- Olivia Cunning
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
- Harrison Ford
My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.
- Bobby Darin
I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
- Chris Daughtry
I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
- Kristin Davis
That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
- Taylor Dayne
My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.
- Giada De Laurentiis
It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
- Gavin Degraw
Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?
- John Green
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
- Alan Dershowitz
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
- Kate Dicamillo
I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.
- Larry Dixon
In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
- Illeana Douglas
The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That's because we typically begin at the wrong starting pointourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
- Rick Warren
In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
- Jeff Dunham
My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.
- Ashton Eaton
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
- Charles Edison
My goal is that Julie and Brody do not become the other's half. They should be two wholes that become a greater one. That is the only way to overcome evil in the end.
- Melissa D Ellis
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
- Boomer Esiason
If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.
- Chris Evans
My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.
- Michael Fassbender
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
- Glenn Frey
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
- Robert Fulghum
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.
- Ana Gasteyer
My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.
- Henry Louis Gates
My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.
- Roger Goodell
I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.
- Lucas Grabeel
If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.
- Greg Graffin
Anyway GONE. My goal in writing GONE To creep you out. To make you stay up all night reading then roll into school tired the next day so that you totally blow the big test and end up dropping out of school.
GONE. Imagine a world where every adult vanishes in an instant.
- Michael Grant
My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
- Chuck Grassley
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.
- Michael Graves
My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
- Brian Austin Green
And I'm falling in love with you," he whispers. "But I would throw you in the water and watch crocodiles tear you to bits, if I thought that doing so would accomplish my goals. Do. Not. Trust. Anyone. Especially me.
- Bethany Griffin
I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
- Mia Hamm
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- Stephen Hawking
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
- Jimi Hendrix
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
- Faith Hill
When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.
- Katie Hoff
My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
- Francois Hollande
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
- Evander Holyfield
My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.
- Clara Hughes
It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
- Dana Hussein
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
- Don Imus
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
- Michael Irvin
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
- A J Jacobs
My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.
- Jaromir Jagr
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
- Helmut Jahn
I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.
- Laurent Jalabert
As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
- Lebron James
My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.
- Valerie Jarrett
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
- Mike Johanns
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
- Dwayne Johnson
I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!
- Shawn Johnson
My goal would be trying to bring some light to the world, which is often a dark and violent place.
- Leila Josefowicz
I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire.
- Leila Josefowicz
Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
- Nafisa Joseph
My goal is to have the most and the best of what I desire. And since I desire clones, I have to be the best me first.
- Jarod Kintz
If my name were Theodore Tiffany, my goal in life would be to meet and marry a woman named Tiffany Theodore. I adore that idea.
- Jarod Kintz
I always keep a Ziploc bag in my pocket, and wherever I go I fill up my bag with dirt, because my goal is to be the largest land holder in the world by the time I'm 42.
- Jarod Kintz
My goal is to do the most with the leastget the maximum output with the minimum input.
- Jarod Kintz
My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
- Anna Kendrick
But is a good guy worth the risk of losing sight of my goals? My dreams?
- Miranda Kenneally
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
- Nastassja Kinski
My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.
- Shirley Knight
One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you're able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.
- Lydia Ko
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
- Olga Korbut
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
- Mila Kunis
My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.
- Rick Larsen
My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.
- Jude Law
My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.
- Nicholas Lea
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
I think that with a lot of hard work and dedication, I feel that I could be the best in the world. I'm still only 35 years old... I have a fresh start physically and mentally, and I feel that I can achieve my goal to be the best again.
- Mario Lemieux
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
- Maya Lin
In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
- Blanche Lincoln
My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.
- Rebecca Lobo
My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.
- Julia Louisdreyfus
My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, you can take and create something of significance.
- Richard Macdonald
My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.
All are of no value unless they are followed by action.
- Og Mandino
My goal was never to sell many records.
- Chuck Mangione
My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
- Marilyn Manson
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
- Brian Mcbride
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.
- Scott Mccallum
My goal was never to get re-elected.
- Scott Mccallum
My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.
- Reba Mcentire
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
- Joel Mchale
My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.
- Bode Miller
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
- Penelope Ann Miller
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
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
- George J Mitchell
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
- George J Mitchell
My goal is to allow readers their own experience of whatever discovery I have made, so that it feels new to them, but also familiar, in that it is a piece with their own experience. It is a form of serious play.
- Kathleen Norris
My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.
- Jerry Moran
Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It's like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: "Slow and steady wins the race." Just try a little, every day. You'll see.
- Holly Mosier
My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
- Jason Mraz
I've reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.
- Thomas Muster
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
- Ruud Van Nistelrooy
My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.
- Nerlens Noel
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
- Grover Norquist
APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.
- Paul Oakenfold
My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page
You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
- Rafael Palmeiro
I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.
- Hayden Panettiere
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'
- Archie Panjabi
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
- Danica Patrick
I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
- Carly Patterson
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
- Jane Pauley
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
- Sally Pearson
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
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
- Michael Phelps
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
- John L Phillips
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
- Eden Phillpotts
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
legal investigation. As Clinton noted, My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.
- Steven Pinker
I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.
- Oscar Pistorius
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
- Katherine Anne Porter
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
- Richard Powers
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
- Jeff Probst
The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That's the
only way I function. That's all I am.
- Ayn Rand
I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.
- Trent Reznor
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
- Trent Reznor
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
- Scott Ritter
My goals are to hit.300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
- Mickey Rivers
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
- Donny Robinson
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
I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.
- Alex Rodriguez
God created me to delight people with my goals.
- Romario
My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.
- Stephen Root
We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.
- Portia De Rossi
There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth."
Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}
- Patrick Rothfuss
I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
- Maya Rudolph
my goal is to always come from a place of love...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker
- Rupaul
I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
- Mathias Rust
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
- Elie Saab
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
- Jessica Savitch
It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.
- Josh Schwartz
With practice I will eventually realize my goal; in the meantime, come to Paris and you will find me, headphones plugged tight in my external audio meatus, walking the quays and whispering, 'Has anything else been inserted into your anus? Has anything else been inserted into your anus?
- David Sedaris
My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.
- Hugh Shelton
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.
- Frank Shorter
Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.
- Jerry Spinelli
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
- Emma Stone
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
- Michael Strahan
The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.
- Julius Streicher
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
- Danny Strong
My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.
- Michael Symon
Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!
Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?
Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!
Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just because you can't meet your goals.
Kyo: THAT CONDESCENDING ATTITUDE OF YOURS REALLY PISSES ME OFF!
Yuki: And that revolting thought process of yours pisses me off.
- Natsuki Takaya
My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
- Niki Taylor
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
- Emma Thompson
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
- Benicio Del Toro
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
- Bubba Watson
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
- Rachel Weisz
My goal is just to become a better comedian.
- Ron White
I've reached my goal with snowboarding.
- Shaun White
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
- Andrew Wiles
For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.
- Jonny Wilkinson
I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.
- Jayson Williams
As soon as we find a cure, we will utilize any of the donations to go toward providing medication to those who can't afford it. That is my goal.
- Montel Williams
My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
- Venus Williams
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
- Venus Williams
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
- Frederick Wiseman
My goal is to just keep playing roles that are different from the roles I've played before.
- Alicia Witt
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
- Steve Wozniak
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