Goal Specification Quotes

[A]s a species, we are very poor at programming. Our brains are built to understand other humans, not computers. We're terrible at forcing our minds into the precise modes of thought needed to interact with a computer, and we consistently make errors when we try. That's why computer science and programming degrees take such time and dedication to acquire: we are literally learning how to speak to an alien mind, of a kind that has not existed on Earth until very recently. ~ Stuart Armstrong

Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush's response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf. ~ John F. Kerry

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. ~ Debi Thomas

And if our goal as moral citizens is to make the world a better place, then there is only once choice: to pump as much oil as we possibly can out of Fort McMurray. Pump and steam and dig and drill and get that oil out of the sand in any and every way we can. Every drop of oil from Alberta is one less drop from some fascist theocracy, or some brutal warlord; one less cent into the treasuries of Russia's secret police and al-Qaeda's murderers. ~ Ezra Levant

People with victim mentality spend their energy not on achieving their target but on meaningless complaints ~ Sunday Adelaja

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual. ~ Herbert Marcuse

The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories. ~ Tim Kreider

Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental. ~ David Galenson

Yes, the arts definitely help people think on their feet. Every time one plays a song, it is unique compared to all the other times you've played it. The goal is to make that uniqueness in your favor. ~ Klymene

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other. ~ Ari Graynor

People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage ... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more than useful items of equipment for me, like facility with languages or immunity to hepatitis. The goal was comprehension, and the only way to comprehend the world was by making myself vulnerable to it so that it could change me. The challenge was to lay myself open to everybody and everything that came my way. The prize was to change and grow big enough to feel one with the whole world. ~ Ted Simon

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident. ~ Alma Gluck

For most of Western civilization low sexual desire has been considered a goal rather than a problem. ~ David Schnarch

Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right ... Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice. ~ Sidney Jourard

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels ~ Rebecca Solnit

To be spiritual has only one real purpose. It is a means to an end, not the end itself. The goal of all spiritual exercise must be the goal of righteousness. God calls us to be holy. Christ sets the priority of the Christian life: "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well" (Matt. 6:33). The goal is righteousness. ~ R.C. Sproul

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Seeing race is not the problem. Refusing to care for the people we see is the problem. The fact that the meaning of race may evolve over time or lose much of its significance is hardly a reason to be struck blind. We should hope not for a colorblind society but instead for a world in which we can see each other fully, learn from each other, and do what we can to respond to each other with love. That was King's dream - a society that is capable of seeing each of us, as we are, with love. That is a goal worth fighting for. ~ Michelle Alexander

Reasons come first. Answers come second ~ Jim Rohn

I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer. ~ Hope Solo

The goal is not to be famous. The goal is to write. And to love doing it every day. ~ C.G. Coppola

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening. ~ Marco Rubio

I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself. ~ Abby Wambach

Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others
first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother. ~ Jean Baker Miller

The goal of this book is do for you what Greg did for me: reframe 26.2 miles as accessible and inspire your first marathon journey, one mile at a time. ~ Gina Greenlee

Satan's primary goal is to prevent us from having an intimate
relationship with the Lord. He ~ Charles F. Stanley

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader. ~ Sharon Stone

Some call them doomsday ships. These lightspeed ships have no destination at all. They turn their curvature engines to maximum and accelerate like crazy, infinitely approaching the speed of light. Their goal is to leap across time using relativity until they reach the heat death of the universe. By their calculations, ten years within their frame of reference would equal fifty billion years in ours. As a matter of fact, you don't even need to plan for it. If some malfunction occurs after a ship has accelerated to lightspeed, preventing the ship from decelerating, then you'd also reach the end of the universe within your lifetime. ~ Liu Cixin

We need to analyze our picture of the world ~ Sunday Adelaja

Our goal as adults is not to love all books alike, or as few as possible, but rather to love as widely and as well as our limited selves will allow. ~ Alan Jacobs

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up. ~ John C. Maxwell

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time. ~ Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Always Keep a Dream in Your Heart"
If you have a dream, do what it takes to make it come true.
If you have a goal, make it something you strive to accomplish.
If you have a hope, then hope for it with all your heart. ~ Collin McCarty

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs. ~ Jackie Evancho

My goal was just to try and be the best player on my high school team, and look where I am now. And that was still my goal as a young kid, just to try and be a little better than my brother was. ~ Larry Bird