Quotes About Objectives

#1. The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

Alfred A. Montapert

#2. Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way.

Gerard De Marigny

#3. International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

Samora Machel

#4. An actor must make his needs (goals, wants, objectives) so strong that he is willing to interfere with the other actor in order to get what he needs. Interfering means getting in their way so that what you want is stronger than what they want.

Michael Shurtleff

#5. We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. the term knowledge engineering has been used to refer to a part of artificial intelligence that particularly centers its objectives on the ways that human knowledge can be represented in a machine and on the diverse strategies that can be used to manipulate

Diego Rasskin-Gutman

#7. Assign a deadline to your biggest objectives and stick to it so they don't become just another litany of "what ifs" and sad regrets.

Carlos Wallace

#8. The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy

Brock Chisholm

#9. That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

Robert Shea

#10. We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

Cofer Black

#11. To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

Loreena McKennitt

#12. Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Peter Drucker

#13. Set your objectives high, and don't stop till you get there. It's time to make your dream a reality. It's your time to live your dream. LET'S GO!

Farshad Asl

#14. When you see what you express through photography, you realize all the things that can no longer be the objectives of painting. Why should an artist persist in treating subjects that can be established so clearly with the lens of a camera?

Pablo Picasso

#15. Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

Preston Manning

#16. We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#17. From a biblical perspective, the purpose of life is not to accomplish our own objectives. The purpose of life is to know God and to bring glory and honor to his name.

Gary Chapman

#18. Without delayed gratification, goals are not achieved and objectives don't get accomplished.

Sunday Adelaja

#19. Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

Lynn Margulis

#20. Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.

Alan Wolfe

#21. Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

Richard Hamming

#22. I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Ben Horowitz

#23. Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.

Ed Bliss

#24. Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#25. Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

Virginia Postrel

#26. One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.

Felix Alba-Juez

#27. Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#28. U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Richard Armitage

#29. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

John Lennon

#30. I will not wage war against women and children! I have instructed my air force to limit their attacks to military objectives. However, if the enemy should conclude from this that he might get away with waging war in a different manner he will receive an answer that he'll be knocked out of his wits!

Adolf Hitler

#31. To ensure attaining an objective, one should have alternate objectives. An attack that converges on one point should threaten, and be able to diverge against another. Only by this flexibility of aim can strategy be attuned to the uncertainty of war.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#32. The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

Paul Kagame

#33. Act as if failure is impossible, and your success will be assured. Wipe out every thought of not achieving your objectives, whether they are material or spiritual.

Robin S. Sharma

#34. All too often, new hires have a different expectation of their job and responsibilities than the organization does. Any miscommunication during the recruiting process needs to be cleared up ASAP. Whenever possible, give new employees a written plan of objectives and responsibilities.

Jay Samit

#35. Many of our greatest musicians abandoned all of their aesthetic objectives to try to become pertinent. And, at the end of the day, they never became pop stars. I counter stated that very strongly, and I continue to do that.

Wynton Marsalis

#36. We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Barack Obama

#37. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peter Drucker

#38. This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

John L. Lewis

#39. A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.

Jim Rohn

#40. Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

Mark Victor Hansen

#41. It's my belief that by demonizing Saddam, by raising the stakes in this war to the point where we're talking about a great moral crusade, that Bush in fact planted the seeds of discontent in the country, because this was fundamentally a limited war with limited objectives and with limited gains.

Rick Atkinson

#42. Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.

Carl Sagan

#43. Forgetting our objectives. - During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844

Robert Greene

#44. If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists.

Vladimir Putin

#45. There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

Peter Drucker

#46. Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.

Jurgen Habermas

#47. Oh, you know. The lingering sensation that in pursuit of my own exacting goals and objectives I might not have been as generous in spirit as I could have been with regard to the needs and dreams of the people I cared most about or for whom I was emotionally responsible.

Chris Cleave

#48. You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.

Stanley Gault

#49. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.

Harold Kurstedt

#50. The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures.

Paulo Freire

#51. Basing your goals on outcomes that deeply matter to you increases your chances of attaining these objectives because of the feelings of fulfillment they inspire within you each step of the way.

Joan Sotkin

#52. The business case for diverse employment is not a matter we can ignore. When the business case merges with values and national objectives, this serves as a wake up call for us all. We cannot ignore the opportunity; we cannot ignore the commitment.

Ofra Strauss

#53. One merely had the feeling that the disease had exhausted itself, or perhaps that it was retiring after achieving all of its objectives.

Albert Camus

#54. Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

Richard Koch

#55. The challenge is trying to set people free, and help them be 'successful' in the world, which are almost always opposite objectives.

Bryant McGill

#56. Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.

Peter Drucker

#57. A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people .

Peter Drucker

#58. The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.

Hamid Karzai

#59. Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.

Martin Jacques

#60. Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

Henry Petroski

#61. Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

Bill Maris

#62. Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Walt Kelly

#63. We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.

Bill Vaughan

#64. A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate.

Sheryl Crow

#65. The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach

James E. Grunig

#66. One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record ... [that] gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Jonathan Ames

#67. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#68. I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences ... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

Ben Bernanke

#69. The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

Gerry Adams

#70. Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Bruce Henderson

#71. If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy.

George C. Marshall

#72. I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people.

Malcolm X

#73. Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.

Mark Victor Hansen

#74. Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.

Douglas Brinkley

#75. Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Jose Marti

#76. To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.

Richard Koch

#77. To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you're throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.

Jean Chatzky

#78. Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

Sheldon Richman

#79. With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

John Noble

#80. You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

John Poindexter

#81. Business is not about negotations, its about mutually finding a point of balance where both parties find their objectives meeting.

Sukant Ratnakar

#82. With common purpose comes, a mission and we should use it for far greater objectives, for human lives and to save our future generations.

Santosh Kalwar

#83. Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

Jack Welch

#84. Let me be absolutely clear: I think it is defeatist to sort of say we want to leave the European Union. We're going to try and change the rules and change the way it works and change the objectives that it has in order to make it something that works for Britain.

Philip Hammond

#85. The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#86. Never get pushed down by the people that don't like you. Act that you are getting down by them, but keep going for your dreams and objectives of life.

Wouter Van Gastel

#87. Strategy is the articulation of the overall objectives along with general guidelines on achieving those objectives.

Leonard Saffir

#88. Try to always stay focused on the objectives that are possible and the positive - and on having fun outside of the stuff that's going on in Washington.

Rush Limbaugh

#89. Life's not clear like that, Sienna. It's not a collection of straight-line paths to your objectives. People don't yell out, 'Ha ha! I am betraying you!' just before they break your heart. In spite of how you're feeling, not everyone's a bad guy.

Robert J. Crane

#90. Governance as strategy . For some researchers, the central purpose of governance is strategic. It is a mechanism for ensuring that the goals and objectives of the board of directors are implemented.

Anonymous

#91. I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

#92. Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Napoleon Hill

#93. Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

John C. Maxwell

#94. Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

#95. Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany's military objectives in Europe. That year Germany grew into a singularly dangerous continental presence: besieged, paranoid and armed to the teeth.

Paul Ham

#96. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

#97. My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.

Alex Honnold

#98. People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

Idries Shah

#99. Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

Napoleon Hill

#100. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Jack Ma