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“As we conquer peak after peak we see in front of us regions full of interest and beauty, but we do not see our goal, we do not see the horizon; in the distance tower still higher peaks, which will yield to those who ascend them still wider prospects, and deepen the feeling, the truth of which is emphasized by every advance in science, that 'Great are the Works of the Lord'.”

Stills Feelings Goal Interest Lord Atheism Fronts Higher Distance Conquer Regions Yield Horizon Towers Prospects Advances In Science

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Years Might Motivational Turns Winning Goal Views Events Tomorrow Distance Practicals Clarity Landscape Fifty Great Day Spatial Future Goals

Book:The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basis—a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.”

Different Enough Goal Needed Weight Bases Distance Celebrate Different Things Target Treadmills

Author:Ali Vincent

“Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.”

Goal Natural White Distance Rewards Metaphor Association Analogies Symbolism Pristine Irrepressible Azaleas

Author:Gao Xingjian

“The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.”

Way Goal Normal Distance Graves Wakes You

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.”

Way Goal Half Stage Illusion Distance Finite Half Way

Author:Aristotle

“As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.”

Looks Matter Dream Today Goal Can Do Forget Destiny Kindness Fronts Sight Distance Your Dreams Compelling Our Destiny Your Destiny Acts Of Kindness Small Acts Small Acts Of Kindness

Author:Cory Booker