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“It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.”

Way Able Together Joy Goal Adventure Target Cardinals Saturn Alluring Composites

Author:Carolyn Porco

“The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.”

Universe Goal Journey Adventure Lessons Yield Carrots

Author:Alan Cohen

“The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.”

People Way Government Purpose Goal Adventure Responsible Various Inherent Setting Goals Being Responsible American Government

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.”

Source: The Goddess Abides: A Novel

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”

Source: The Double Win

“My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read.”

Want Book Kids Wanted Goal Novel Style Adventure Pages Chapters Captains Identical Format Picture Books Underpants

Author:Dav Pilkey

“My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.”

Goal Adventure Intellectual Curiosity Primaries Seduction Hacking Intellectual Curiosity

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.”

Ifs Should Goal Perfect Silence Fire Events Adventure Empty Drunk Cups Ashes Again And Again Verge Illusory

Author:M. John Harrison

“The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.”

Men Needs Mind Wells Self Reason Body Life Is Goal Journey Adventure Creator Senses Supreme

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.”