quotes about Focus On Goals

“In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!”

“Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.”

“I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.”

“Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!”

“The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.”

Source : Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”

Source : "Where I Learned To Read" by Salvatore Scibona, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2011.

“The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “Affinities”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

“How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?”

“Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.”

“Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.”

Source : Knut Hamsun, Gunnvor Stallybrass (2001). “A wanderer plays on muted strings”, Green Integer Books