"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Goal, Attention, Day, Students

"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

"What is a goal without a purpose?"

J.R. Rim, American Author

Goal, Purpose, Meaning, Direction

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Goal, Philosophy

"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."

Paul Kane, English Writer

Goal, Goals, End, Patience, Persistence

"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

"It's not my goal to be a famous actor."

Gavin DeGraw, American Musician

Goal, Actor, Famous

"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."

Richard Stallman, American Scientist

Goal, Idealism, Want, World

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

Joseph Ratzinger, German Clergyman

Goal, Dictatorship, Ego

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People

"Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again."

Fashion

"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

Fear

"If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window."

God

"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Want

"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."

Familiarity

"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"

Change

"I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom."

Longing

"Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right."

Memory

"I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances."

Medicine