All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.
Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that
Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.
I have my goals, I have some things I want to achieve next basketball season individually. But the number one thing is always winning games. If you win games then everything else will take care of itself. You know nobody wants to see you guys score 30 and then lose every game.
Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.
Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.
Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.
The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's not just about me capturing the image; I want to know what you are about.
Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.
We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.
Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.
If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.
Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.
Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process.