“What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.” ThinkingMindUsedUnderstandingGoalKnowingIntellectualSakePracticalsUsed To BeDevotedPursuedMind ThinkingKnowing And Understanding Author:Gary Gutting
“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.)” YearsMightMotivationalTurnsWinningGoalViewsEventsTomorrowDistancePracticalsClarityLandscapeFiftyGreat DaySpatialFuture 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
“What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.” NeedsHardSuccessSportsGoalHard WorkPracticalsWillingnessRealisticRealistic GoalsLasting Change Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The acceptability of ideals, the criteria for our actions and beliefs, the leading principles of ethics and politics, all our ultimate decisions are made to depend upon factors other than reason. They are supposed to be matters of choice and predilection, and it has become meaningless to speak of truth in making practical, moral or esthetic decisions.” IfsThinkingMadeMatterReasonHelpingActionChoicesBeliefSpeakGoalDecisionViewsMoralPrinciplesDependsEthicsIdealsUltimatePracticalsFactorsSupposed To BeMeaninglessOur ActionsCriteriaDesirability Author:Max Horkheimer
“Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.” ShouldGoalPowerfulSkyIdealsPracticalsApplicationPieDreamy Author:Les Brown
“I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.” IfsRunningForceGoalLinesViewsPracticeSucceedPracticalsSocialismCompromiseProgressiveParallelsParallel Lines Author:John Burns