A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.
Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!
My goal has always been to make a living and to have the respect of my peers. It's never been about stardom. It's about a good and challenging part.
I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.
The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.
And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.
