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“Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.”

Individual Goal Worry Player Team Losing Managers Discouraging Individual Goals

Author:Al Lopez

“Even the lucky ones, who do manage to become happy by attaining their goals, live each day in fear of losing whatever it is they may have gained.”

Inspirational May Goal Buddhism Lucky Losing Manage Each Day Live Each Day

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.”

“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.”

“My opinion is there should NOT be an MVP award [in hockey]. The Olympic teams sports shouldn't acknowledge individuality. And if there is going to be such an award a player on the losing team who lets in the losing goal shouldn't get it.”

Ifs Should Sports Goal Opinion Player Team Losing Individuality Acknowledge Awards Hockey Sports Team Mvp

Author:Michael Wilbon

“Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.”

Trying Book Process Goal Quality Creativity Creative Magic Integrity Demand Losing Adults Titles Gardening Conventional Cookery Magic Words

Author:Marilyn Ferguson

“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”

Ifs Feels Reason Goal Effort Danger Activity Losing Direct Graves Evolve Reaching Cheated Reaching Goals Losing Everything Daily Activities

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.”

Has Beens Made Reason Goal Becoming Losing Hollywood Sight Beast Movie Insidious Becoming One

Author:Lynda Obst

“When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading size helps achieve that goal.”

Hard Helping Goal Ability Cutting Achieve Information Products Losing Size Factors Trading Streaks

Author:Bill Lipschutz

“I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.”

World Believe Matter Goal Five Team Losing No Matter What Setting Settings Pounds Championship Setting Goals Championship Team

Author:Dara Torres