"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."

Goal, Goals, Order

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"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."

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"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

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"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."

Arthur Erickson, Canadian Architect

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"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

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"Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it."

Just Fontaine, French Athlete

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"One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written."

Mac Davis, American Musician

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"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

Max Eastman, American Author

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"I think I'll take my record of 13 goals to the grave."

Just Fontaine, French Athlete

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"The goals made such a difference to the way this game went."

John Motson, British Celebrity

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"Earnestly and persistently pursue your dreams."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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