“One of our main goals was trying to make the tournament. The top 16 teams in the nation make it and we had never been ranked in the top 25, so it was a pretty lofty goal.”

“As you set hard goals, industry is driven to profitability. You can produce energy for the private sphere and for public benefit. The public goal is important and the idea that the best prevails in the marketplace is ridiculous.”

“It's not our goal to wipe out piracy entirely. It is our goal to bring it to a level of manageable control -- just as our industry has lived with physical piracy on the street for a number of years.”

Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

“The 2006 Olympic Winter Games have been a great success for Canada. We set an aggressive goal of a top-three finish at these Games and we will leave Turin having achieved that goal.”

“We're going to be irreverent. We're going to be bold, ... Our goal is not to have the 251st network that looks like all the others. Our goal is to look different from anything you've seen.”

“It's all a matter of opinion. The goal is to do better than I did last year, which is more than 11 1/2 sacks. I'm not big on statistics, but that is the goal.”

Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you.

Goals are my north star.  My compass.  The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.  Goals are motivations with wind in their sails—they carry me forward despite the storms.

“We had some good passing and a couple of beautiful goals.”