Conflicting Goals Quotes

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

Because every design must satisfy competing objectives, there necessarily has to be compromise among, if not the complete exclusion of, some of those objectives, in order to meet what are considered the more important of them.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

You can't have your kayak and heat it.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.

In the business world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes, governed by self interest.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Our military structure and tactics have been designed more to protect the service interest than the national interest.

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.