No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
We didn't cover the slot. A lot of goals were off of rebounds or passes in front of the net. We have been on the fortunate side a few times this season, but you can't think any game is going to be an easy game.
We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals
A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.