“We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.” WantChildrenGoalFitConflictOur ChildrenExcellenceAddressesConformityStanding Out Book:Making Sense Source: Making Sense
“. . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories -- specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics.” ShouldWellsKindPhilosophyFormUnderstandingGoalDealsObjectsFitApproachFunctionRelationMathematicsFoundationObjectivesAlternativesOperationsCategoriesCompositionReplacedOften IsMembership Author:Saunders Mac Lane
“I don't feel like I'm getting older. I think it's the way I've looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I'll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.” ThinkingWayFeelsFeelingsGamesGoalFootballFitFeel GoodGetting OldGetting OlderWhatever It TakesGood FeelingScoring Goals Author:Jermain Defoe
“Man becomes fit and functionally valid only when, along with scholarship and expert skills, he has imbibed these values. The person who is wedded to Truth and Love would need nothing more for peace and happiness. When Creation is witnessed through these values, it becomes holy scripture, an inspiring lesson and guide,. Therefore I exhort you: Let Truth and Love be the goals for all your efforts and studies.” MenNeedsPersonsValuesGoalLove IsEffortStudyCreationFitHolyLessonsSkillsAnd LoveGuidesScriptureExpertsScholarshipPeace And HappinessHoly ScripturesTruth And Love Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.” IfsLife IsGoalFitStanding OutLife Goal Author:Mardy Grothe
“My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.” GoalCareersFitStrategyCurrentsShort TimeCareer Goals Author:Benjamin Stone
“The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.” MayHappensGoalFitUltimateShirtsEquationsT ShirtPhysicistUltimate Goal Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our job isn't to pigeonhole ourselves or describe where we fit in. Our goal isn't to fit in. Our goal is to be free of all that stuff.” GoalInterestingFitMost Interesting Author:John Flansburgh
“The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one. Get past the product market fit, figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. So scaling, one through N, is figuring out can you do that at scale and how big is the scale. And when people pay you more than what it costs for you to make it, does that equation end up leaving you with money left over, i.e. profits.” PeopleTryingProblemCarePastGoalFitLeaving Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“First, the skill of storytelling helps to galvanize your team. Second, the discipline of storytelling requires leaders to be clear about their intentions and to prioritize what fits into the story versus secondary goals and issues. Third, there is possibly an artifact here - great storytellers can make their exploits and achievements sound very exciting and memorable. Successful leaders who are not good storytellers won't get the acknowledgement and appreciation they deserve.” HelpingGoalLeaderSuccessfulTeamDisciplineFitAchievementDeserveExcitingIntentionAppreciationStorytellingMemorableStorytellerAcknowledgementPrioritize Author:Gary A. Klein
“I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.” WorldKindMeanLongCharacterGoalAudienceLike YouPerspectiveFitComplicatedOutsidersLikeable Author:Jody Hill
“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice. I could have done other kinds of songs that got me in the radio or Top 10, but I wouldn't feel proud of the work. I come up short when I create music I don't like, and fans can tell too. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.” TryingKindDoneMovingArtistSongChoicesGoalPerfectProudFit Author:Nikka Costa
“Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas, with optimization, it feels like there's more intelligence in that. It maintains the usability, but tries to distill something down to its essence. But with some data-sets you have to be careful because, as with linear, print journalism, it's easy to shave off facts that don't quite fit the flow.” TryingEasyGoalFitCarefulJournalismPrintBe CarefulGraphicRemovalSimplification Author:David Mccandless