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“My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and if you do good work, and stay focused on the work, writers and directors will pay attention.”

Ifs Actors Goal Pay Attention Directors Focused Pay Attention Consistent Good Work Stay Focused

Author:Michael K. Williams

“My goals were small. My goal was to become a big enough stand-up that I wouldn't have to do radio. I could sell out a club, which is like 300 seats. If I got big enough, I could sell before I got there, and I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning to do radio. That was pretty much the dream. I had no idea I'd be playing Madison Square Garden or anything.”

Ifs Ideas Enough Dream Bigs Goal Morning Garden Sells Radio Clubs Get Up No Idea Seats Squares Madison Madison Square Garden

Author:Chris Rock

“I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. My goal is always what Chuck Jones wanted his Warner Brothers cartoons to be, which was if you turn down the sound, you could still tell what's going on. I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.”

“My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.”

Ifs Trying Years Next Stuff Goal Forever Negative Positive Things Keep Positive

Author:Sharon Jones

“My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Littles I Can Fun Sides Goal Simple Having Fun Really Happy Little Money Simple Man

Author:Bruno Mars

“The leader has to command the respect of all those under his supervision - and he must be open to those under his supervision. Effective leadership means having a lot of people working toward a common goal. And when you have that with no one caring who gets the credit, you're going to accomplish a lot. If you have those just wanting the credit for themselves, you're not going to get as much accomplished.”

People Ifs Mean Goal Common Leader Caring Credit Accomplish Command Accomplished Effective Leadership Supervision Common Goal

Author:John Wooden

“My goal was to show that even if people work in a garage or a supermarket, they have very funny things to say. We never hear their voices.”

People Ifs Shows Goal Voice Funny Things Garage Supermarkets

Author:Michel Gondry

“Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.”

Ifs Wells Persons Law Goal Natural Trouble Conflict Universal Abandon Science And Religion Laws Of Nature Natural Law Universal Laws

Author:Bill Nye

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Feelings Faces Goal Minutes Serious Honor Normal Anxiety Tests Brave Scared Technique Nervous Reaching Courageous Temporary Erase Being Scared Reaching Goals

Author:Chrisette Michele

“Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.”

Ifs Trying Years Problem Would Be Fall Games Winning Easy Goal Loss Proud Lows Standards Okay Bars Being The Best Be Proud Mediocre

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.”

Ifs Should Humans Book Ends Hard Enough Body Kids Earth Goal Rooms Secret Behinds Alive Wall Should Have Instance Primaries Code Bedroom Revealing Printed Life Goal

Author:Blake Butler

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“If ever a goal ever needed a game, this is it”

Ifs Games Goal Needed

Author:Tony Gale

“I have one goal with all my decision: to do whatever is needed to win today's game. I'm loyal to my players, and I stick with people because consistency builds confidence. But if I feel I have to make a change in order to win, I'll do it. I don't ask players to like my decisions, only to accept that I'm doing my job with one thing in mind - winning.”

Source: Joe Torre's ground rules for winners: 12 keys to managing team players, tough bosses, setbacks, and success

“You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.”

Ifs May Goal Perseverance Knees Score Worth It Spectacular Softball Elbows Skinned Knees

Author:Mia Hamm

“As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.”

Ifs Trying School Asks Goal Boys Achieve Rectify

Author:John Gokongwei

“The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.”

Ifs Should Long Running Sound Goal Growth Economic Assets Bubbles Long Runs Framework Economic Growth Vigilant

Author:Christina Romer

“I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.”

Ifs Thinking Next Goal Team Worthy Opening Flags Ceremony Choose Me Opening Ceremony

Author:Picabo Street

“And if you give your heart to a goal, it will repay you. It's the law of the universe.”

Ifs Giving Heart Law Universe Goal Devotional Universal Laws Repayment Repaying

Author:Bear Grylls

“If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with.”

Ifs World Way Trying Looks Helping Use Problem Care Goal Can Do Challenges Technology Creative One Thing Picks Areas Organization Contact New Ways Volunteer Better Place

Author:Bill Gates

“If you take all the marketing books in the world and distill them, the key to marketing is hope. People buy hope, the hope that you will help them solve a problem or achieve a goal.”

People Ifs World Book Helping Problem Goal Achieve Keys Marketing Solve

Author:Brian Tracy

“You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.”

Ifs Bigs America Certain Goal Achieve Backgrounds Negativity Family Background

Author:Brian Tracy

“It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn.”

Ifs Needs Matter Hard Goal Poor Clear Achieve Our Family Clear Goals

Author:Brian Tracy

“Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.”

People Ifs Problem Stuff Goal Too Much Crazy Insane Comedian Insanity

Author:Jim Carrey

“I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.”

Ifs Way Whole Stories Goal Fronts Pages Come Up Newspapers Storytelling Unusual

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.”

Ifs Next Goal Tasks Urges Climbing Discouraged Resisting Achiever

Author:John R Noe

“The human race cannot go forward without liberty. If this be correct, then all people everywhere should strive for liberty. If they achieve liberty, they will get a chance to pursue happiness and perhaps will be able to develop toward the ultimate goal of creation.”

People Ifs Should Humans Able Goal Chance Race Liberty Achieve Creation Ultimate Strive Pursue Human Race Ultimate Goal

Author:Richard E. Byrd

“Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.”

Ifs Mean Winning Goal Player Team Impact Defense Passing Passings Defined Playing Defense

Author:Mia Hamm

“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“If you set yourself a goal for energy usage in your house, if you have to look at a graph on your phone, you probably won't change your behavior. But if you have a clock on the wall that changes color from green to red if you're using more energy than you've planned, then that actually can change your behavior. There are a lot of things to be done in that world that actually have an impact on our daily lives.”

Ifs World Looks Done House Energy Goal Color Wall Behavior Red Green Impact Phones Clock Daily Life Usage Graphs

Author:Werner Vogels

“There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.”

Ifs Way May Littles Matter Whole Running Able Wanted Bits Goal Little Bit Timing Marathon Medication Smack I May Not Be Running Marathon

Author:Michael J. Fox

“Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft of acting. If you have a real passion for it and acting is what you want to do every day, you are much more likely to be successful. If being a star is your primary goal, you may end up being very disappointed.”

Ifs Want May Real Ends Reason Passion Stars Goal Acting Successful What You Want Crafts Primaries Being Successful Disappointed

Author:Donna Mills

“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”

Ifs Want Matter Done Play Guy Goal Challenges Roles Comedy Havens Drama Scripts Teeth Bad Guys Want Something Good Guy

Author:Stanley Tucci

“It's easy to keep score at a football game because it's just how many times you get the ball over the goal. But, when you ask an audience to tell us how many times the invisible ball got over the invisible goal, and they go, "Well, it was 46," they're just making it up. So, if you're listening to that, as though you're actually listening to the score of a football game, you're misleading yourself.”

Ifs Wells Asks Games Easy Goal Audience Football Listening Balls Invisible Score Mislead Football Game

Author:Gus Van Sant

“If you dont have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you wont reach them or will quit trying.”

Ifs Trying Goal Emotional Connections Accomplish Quitting Odds Emotional Connection Accomplish Your Goals

Author:Brett Hoebel

“If the goal is doing good stuff and working with your friends ... if you’re doing that then you’re succeeding.”

Ifs Stuff Goal Succeed Doing Good

Author:Amy Poehler

“There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.”

Ifs Way Kind Jobs Turns Goal Fine Ultimate Ultimate Goal

Author:Chuck Yeager

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.”

Ifs Persons Goal Ten Instance Commandments Vague Impressive Ten Commandments Very Impressive

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.”

Ifs Men Life Heart Done Moments Life Is Waiting Goal Blood Century Missing Future Happenings Seeking Breathing Meaning Of Life Somewhere Else Waiting For You Life Means

Author:Rajneesh

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.”

Source: How to Handle Adversity

“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.”

“Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.”

Ifs Men Trying May Said Two Whole Character Stories Lost Goal Wall Blue Fellows Drinking Ideology Bottles One Time Preacher Wraps Ribbons Drinkers Bourbon

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.”

“man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.”

Ifs Men Ends Form Goal Community Achieve Highest Polis

Author:Moses Finley

“If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.”

“If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation of the reader for acts of gallantry and devotion in my country's cause, at least I may claim the merit of zealous and persevering continuance in my vocation. We are all of us variously gifted from Above, and he who is content to walk, instead of to run, on his allotted path through life, although he may not so rapidly attain the goal, has the advantage of not being out of breath upon his arrival.”

Source: Peter Simple

“To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.”

Source: The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age

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