top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Ty swept his arms around, encompassing everything around them, the vast campus above. 'All this. The fucking shark that eats the world."
Observation
"But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV."
Home
"Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to."
Emotion
"No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death."
Reality
"Surveillance shouldn't be the tradeoff for any goddamn service we get."
Surveillance
"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."
Publishing
"If you don't have something grand for men like us to be part of, we will take apart all the little things. Neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Building by building. Family by family."
Society
"Always we learn things and then we forget them."
Learning
"His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves?"
Society
"You see pictures of Buddha and he's sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross."
Spiritual
bottom of page