The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
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.
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.
My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.
Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
It's always the right time to live the big goals and dreams and to leave behind dwelling on the little nightmares.
The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts by redefining atheism or evolution or the word 'species.'
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
