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May 14, 2011 by kevinstilley

Goals – select quotes

The most important thing about goals is… having one.
~ Geoffry F. Abert

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
~ Bo Bennet

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~ E. Joseph Cossman

Your goal should be out of reach, but not out of sight.
~ Anita DeFrantz

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
~ Napolean Hill

Every an has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. . . . Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
~ Theodore Parker, in A Lesson for the Day

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
~ J.C. Penney

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.
~ Cavett Robert

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January 11, 2009 by kevinstilley

Robert Heinlein – Select Quotes

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

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May 30, 2008 by kevinstilley

Girls Shouldn’t Just Wanna Have Fun

Parker & KevinGirls shouldn’t just wanna have fun, and neither should anyone else. Consider this story told by J.P. Moreland in The Lost Virtue Of Happiness which he co-authored with Klaus Issler;

When my daughter’s eight-grade team was being creamed in a soccer game, the coach said at halftime, “Girls, don’t worry about the score. The reason we play soccer is to have fun; so let’s try to have a blast during the second half and go home happy whatever the final result.” That coach reminds me of Cyndi Lauper’s song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” He was mindlessly parroting the cultural mantra that pleasurable satisfaction is the goal of life. The reasons my wife and I wanted our daughter to play soccer where to learn how to win and to lose, to cooperate with others, to sacrifice for a long-term goal, which requires delaying instant gratification, and — well, you get the picture. What was really sad was not simply the coach’s speech, but the fact than none of the parents so much as batted an eye at his counsel.

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