Ours was a loving, nurturing household, but, at the same time, my parents' goal was to make all their children self-sufficient.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Part of executive functions is the ability to look to a goal deadline and assess where an organization is in meeting it.
Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.
That's pretty rewarding in itself coming from where I started. Obviously the next goal for me is to make the Olympic team.
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.
If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.
Ed Koch will never 'rest in peace.' That was not his way. He was always nervously squirming, while making others squirm as well. Comfort was not his goal. He understood that to be a proud and assertive Jew meant never being able to leave a sigh of relief and say, 'It's over, we are at peace, we can now put down our guard and relax.'
Chips will continue to shrink, of course. We, along with other semiconductor companies, are continuing to push toward the next goal of 10 nm, but going beyond 10 nm will require the development of new technologies, materials, and manufacturing processes that are still being perfected.
But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
Common sense would tell you that the idea that Saudi Arabia was paying for bin Laden's expenses while he was living in Abbottabad is simply risible. Bin Laden's principal goal was the overthrow of the Saudi royal family as a result of which his Saudi citizenship was revoked as far back as 1994.
Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.
Pinochet and Barack Obama both have the same primary goal, and that's to be president and stay president as long as allowed.
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal.
I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time.
As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.
Making modern games funny would be easy as pie if it was anybody's goal to actually make a funny game.
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
