“I wish my life and decisions to depend upon myself, not on external forces of whatever kind. I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will. I wish to be the subject, not an object...I wish to be somebody, not nobody; a doer - deciding, not being decided for, slef-directed and not acted upon by external nature or by other men as if I were a thing, or an animal, or a slave incapable of playing a human role, that is, of conceiving goals and policies of my own and realizing them.” IfsMenHumansKindForceWishGoalRealizingMy OwnDecisionAnimalRolesSubjectsPolicyObjectsDependsDecidedInstrumentsSlaveIncapableDoersConceivingExternal Forces Author:Isaiah Berlin
“I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals and I never do that kind of stuff I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.” KnowsKindStuffGoalPlansTomorrowSurpriseSetting GoalsSurprise Me Author:Kate del Castillo
“It's very important to approach pedophiles and pedosexuals and offer them therapy. It's been my experience that you can reach your objective with what I would call kind-hearted, informed and enlightened patients - in the sense that they don't lose their desire, but that they no longer have physical contact with children. That would be the goal.” KindChildrenImportantWould BeDesireGoalLosesOffersApproachPatientObjectivesContactTherapyEnlightenedHeartedKind Hearted Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.” IfsKindMeanEndsMatterPastGoalNo Matter WhatCalmGoalkeepers Author:Lev Yashin
“It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.” WayKindWholeBigsAbleGoalMy OwnWifeJourneyCollegeSceneMarriedMovedScaryMy WifeGymnasticsHoustonChanging My LifeBig ChangesNew Journey Author:Jonathan Horton
“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.” KindWarEndsFallDifficultGoalSimpleLevelsPerformancesDifficultyMinorsSimplestIncidentsFriction Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.” IfsWayFirstsHumansWellsKindWould BeTogetherJobsSocialGoalNaturalEmotionResourcesWorkersI RealizedAll KindsRelatedAnthropologyNatural ResourcesSocial WorkerPrimatesGoals And LifePhdsMadagascarLemurs Author:Patricia Wright