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“My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.”

Ifs Years Ends Would Be Goal If I Could Tournaments

Author:Bubba Watson

“When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.”

Thinking Children Dream Would Be Remember Goal Achieve Football Proud One Day Unbelievable Stadiums Footballer Milan

Author:Andriy Shevchenko

“Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.”

Would Be Father Goal Interest Careers Study Activity Decided Medicine University Profession

Author:Frederick Sanger

“I believe that I possess this value: to serve Jesus. I am less at peace than if my goal would be to attain a professorship and a good life, but I live. And that gives me the tremendous feeling of happiness, as if one would hear music. One feels uprooted, because one asks, what lies ahead, what decisions should I make-but more alive, happier than those anchored in life. To drift with released anchor.”

Ifs Giving Feels Should Believe Feelings Would Be Lying Values Asks Jesus I Believe Goal Decision Christianity Alive Give Me Good Life Should I Anchors Professorship

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.”

States Government Would Be Goal Economy Foolish Alternatives Aesthetic Custodians

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.”

Ifs Inspirational Children Would Be Individual Wish Goal My Children

Author:Lillian Gordy Carter

“Maybe in the back of my mind I was kind of wishing that I would become a rock star, kind of wishing that I would reach enough people who would be willing to pay me for the music, that I would actually be able to live off of just writing the songs that I wanted to write. But I don't think I really admitted to myself that that was my goal.”

People Thinking Writing Mind Kind Enough Would Be Able Wanted Song Wish Stars Goal Pay Rocks Willing Rock Star Of My Mind

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.”

Long Would Be Courses Goal Term Path Evolution Horse Obstacles Long Term Flats Receiver Legion Freeways Analogue Long Term Success

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“The thing is that what you try to do when you play is you try to play not below a certain level. In other words, it can be a special day where it would be phenomenal, but if it's not below a certain level, that's the goal. You know, that's what you want to do. That's why you practice and so on.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Play Would Be Certain Goal Levels Practice Special What You Want Phenomenal

Author:Itzhak Perlman

“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.”

Source: Love and Friendship

“What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.”

Believe Would Be Able Goal Realizing Atheism Positive Atheism Opponents

Author:Jean Rostand

“Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.”

Ifs Would Be Goal Needed Research Cancer Cures Fusion Cancer Cure

Author:Stephen Hawking

“I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.”

Thinking Play Would Be Goal Superhero

Author:Liana Liberato

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

“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

“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.”

“I want be an entertainer that doesn't just work in one specific field, but a variety of things. If I become an artist that influences people in many different directions and aspects, I think I would be satisfied for having achieved my biggest goal.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Different Would Be Artist Goal Influence Fields Aspect Satisfied Variety Entertainers Different Directions Influencing People

Author:Min

“Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.”

Country Would Be Courses Force Goal Common Policy Prejudice Various Priorities Foreign Policy Unnecessary European Countries

Author:Vaclav Klaus

“I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.”

People Writing Dream Would Be Wish Goal Community Students Members Ambition Projects Concepts Impact Missions Involving Cubes Student Life

Author:Scott Cohen

“So it would be a good thing for Chinese parents to instill enthusiasm among their kids for football. It's a great game, not only regarding the emotions behind it, but it's also a game for young people to gain experience of working in a bigger group and work to achieve goals.”

People Would Be Kids Young Games Parent Goal Emotion Behinds Groups Achieve Football Gains Bigger Good Things Enthusiasm Chinese Instill Achieving Goals

Author:Berti Vogts

“If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer.”

Ifs Littles Made Would Be Goal Watches Baby Arms Mouths Doctors Tables Legs Abortion Illegal Cotton Pro Life Life Goal Dentist Unthinkable

Author:John Piper

“I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.”

Ifs Reality Happens Would Be Goal Nice Plans Being Nice

Author:John Madden

“When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.”

Stories Would Be Running Sound Goal Happened Stage Singing Describing

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“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.”

Kind Children Important Would Be Desire Goal Loses Offers Approach Patient Objectives Contact Therapy Enlightened Hearted Kind Hearted

Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.”

Done Would Be Goal Challenges Break Silly Stereotype Being Silly

Author:Sasha Grey

“It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.”

Would Be Goal Mistake Assuming Educational Contrary Pursuit Efficient Machinery Rapids Obsolete Present Day Educational System Unchanging Rapid Change

Author:Alvin Toffler

“Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal is to liberate the business initiative, to lower administrative and law enforcement pressure and to make legal protection truly effective”

Knows Would Be Law Goal Pressure Protection Useless Initiative Law Enforcement Enforcement Recessions Administrative

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“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.”

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