Quotes On Goals And Targets

#1. The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.

Sha Zukang

#2. The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

Quentin Bryce

#3. Memory is a fickle thing, a flickering light in a darkroom of possibilities.

Kent Nerburn

#4. There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Sophocles

#5. If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Mike Farrell

#6. Howay yabastaaz I'll t-t-take the f-f-fuckin lorrayaz! Am fuckin al reet me man. Why aye!

Tony Benn

#7. We got an international coalition [against Iran], and we imposed that. It was slow, patient diplomacy, nothing at all particularly headline-worthy. But then you got to the point where the negotiations - which I started and Secretary [John] Kerry completed - I think made the world safer.

Hillary Clinton

#8. We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. If something wants to be a story, it will be.

Scarlett Thomas

#10. In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

Wang Jianlin

#11. My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance.

Stephanie Laurens

#12. Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side effects.

Daniel H. Pink

#13. Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

#14. Goals are compulsive cahoots, gnawing at our minds everyday, challenging our abilities and pushing us closer to the curve of compliance.

Balroop Singh

#15. I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades ... or a game of fake heart attack.

Demetri Martin

#16. We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions.

Brian D. McLaren

#17. The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets.

Michael Hyatt

#18. Typically, my eighteen-month plan sets goals on two fronts. First and most important, I set targets for what my team can accomplish. Employees who concentrate on results and impact are the most valuable - like

Sheryl Sandberg

#19. Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Aristophanes

#20. Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

Shaun Hick

#21. The way out of a trap is to know the way the trap is built. Only then will it cease being a trap.

Marguerite Beecher

#22. I've learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I'm alone and I've never been so content.

Melinda Salisbury

#23. There should be momentum created for achievement of goals by 2022. When we celebrate the 75th anniversary of freedom we should achieve targets

Narendra Modi

#24. As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

Jamshyd Godrej