Goals Quotes

You must do the thing you think you cannot do

Friday, May 14th, 2010
climbing to the top

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you…

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One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a long time

Saturday, April 17th, 2010
water, no shore

To what use am I to put it? Is it by aiming at a goal? But how to choose such a goal? How know what it is before reaching it?”

“To live without a goal, is to give oneself up to chance.”

“I am afraid you don’t understand. When…

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The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it

Monday, March 29th, 2010
waterfall path

a Romany saying

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Your mission now is to ask yourself every day, ‘Am I doing what I want to be doing?’

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
puddle jumping

And I do ask myself that, every day. I try to make the answer yes, even if it requires saying the word no and disappointing someone.

My experience was about letting go. It was about really experiencing all that was happening at the deepest…

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There is not simply a new world to be gained, there is an old world that must be reclaimed

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
student

There are countless vanished and forgotten women who are nonetheless eager to speak to her – from Frances Harper and Anne Spencer to Dorothey West – but she must work to find them, to free them from their neglect…

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Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

Friday, January 1st, 2010
brick wall

“Be supportive,” my mom said. “If you love her, support her.”

And so I did that. I spent that week teaching, hanging out in an office up the hall from Jai. I stopped by a couple of times, however, just to see if she was all right. “I just…

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You pilot always into an unknown future

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
star chart

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable…

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Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Monday, December 14th, 2009
storm

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they chose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg or steal from anybody and everybody to…

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us

Monday, November 30th, 2009
shell in the palm of a hand

“Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

“So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such…”

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The most daunting ideas turn into the best books

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
dreamy night sky

…had assigned me to write about. The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you knit it from the fiber of your own will. From somewhere, you get it. You begin.

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What do you fear, Lady?

Sunday, October 25th, 2009
woman and cage

But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not…

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
fight in the dog

Of course, you as seasoned workers know that there are no secret weapons in politics.

Today, as always, the three ingredients of success are:

1. Good candidates…

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