Goals Quotes
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
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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Tags: Cancer, Goals, Limitations
Posted in Sheryl Crow | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
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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Tags: Civil Rights, Education, Goals
Posted in Alice Walker | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 1st, 2010
“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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Tags: Focus, Goals, Limitations
Posted in Randy Pausch | 3 Comments »
Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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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Tags: Goals, Lazarus Long
Posted in Robert Heinlein | 6 Comments »
Monday, December 14th, 2009
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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Tags: Goals, Writing
Posted in William Faulkner | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 30th, 2009
“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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Tags: Goals, The Fellowship of the Ring, Time
Posted in J.R.R. Tolkien | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
…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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Tags: Goals, Ideas, Writing
Posted in Barbara Kingsolver | 3 Comments »
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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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Tags: Fear, Goals, The Return of the King
Posted in J.R.R. Tolkien | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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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Tags: Competition, Goals
Posted in Dwight D. Eisenhower | No Comments »
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
An artist informs the world of what’s available behind the masks we all wear. That’s what we’re all here to do. The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we’re not yet…
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Tags: Goals, Life
Posted in Marianne Williamson | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
…if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don’t you won’t get any. In this world, it is necessary to adopt the principle pursued by the plaintiff in an action for damages, and to demand ten times more than you are ready to accept. If you can feel satisfied with a hundred, begin by insisting on a thousand; if you start by suggesting a hundred, you will only…
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Tags: Goals, Happiness, Humor, Satisfaction
Posted in Jerome K Jerome | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
When we combine a warm heart with knowledge and education, we can learn to respect others views and others rights. This becomes the basis of a spirit of reconciliation that can be used to…
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Tags: Goals, Respect
Posted in Dalai Lama | No Comments »