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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. -- Bill Copeland
To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself. -- Buzz Aldrin
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals. -- Linus Torvalds
I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can. -- Scott Peters
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will. -- Sherry Argov
In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. -- Wang Jianlin
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
With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal. -- Mac Miller
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
If I can score goals, then why not, I think the fans will love to see that. I have a big career looking ahead and I want to impress. -- Royston Drenthe
When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map. -- Melissa Bank
I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point. -- Teju Cole
My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it. -- Brad Thor
I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile. -- Chris Burke
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals. -- Abu Abbas
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. -- Rene Daumal
I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success. -- Brooklyn Decker
When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something. -- Marilyn Manson
I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do. -- Chris Massoglia
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
The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it. -- Dwayne Johnson
Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises. -- Mark Pincus
Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach. -- Benjamin E. Mays
The goal is to keep having fun. Not let that pressure get to me and still be Missy. -- Missy Franklin
Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time. -- Berti Vogts
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving. -- Og Mandino
Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom. -- Tony Evans
Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. -- Albert Ellis
It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. -- Benjamin E. Mays

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