But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.
We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.
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.
At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities.
Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.