"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."

Goal, May, Pleasure

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"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."

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"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship."

LeBron James, American Athlete

Goal, Winning, Will

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

Mike Pence, American Politician

Goal, Goals, Agreement, Legislation

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

Goal, Practice, Self, Sense

"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"My goal is just to become a better comedian."

Ron White, American Comedian

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"The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was."

James Earl Jones, American Actor

Goal, Hollywood

"Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim ."

Eileen Caddy, English Celebrity

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"I really just tried to make a record full of great songs, which is the goal I always have."

Martina McBride, American Musician

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"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

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"Mr. Speaker, the goal of stem cell research should be to help our fellow human beings. The debate on this issue has, unfortunately, moved into dangerous unethical territory when perfectly moral alternatives exist."

Jim Ryun, American Athlete

Goal, Debate, Help, Research

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Age

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Man

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

Psychology

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."

Character

"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."

Psychology

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

Psychology

"Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any."

Philosophy

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Knowledge

"As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."

Philosophy

"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."

Psychology