Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret.
The great value of lofty goals is the bigness they instill in you as you step - up to achieve them.
A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself.
When you have a goal, there will also be a result.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality.
If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.
Reasons are the fuel for goal achievement. Without a strong enough reason, it's impossible to persevere.
Every setting of a goal must be immediately followed by the development of a plan
Duty was not untinged by ambition.
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if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
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