Goal-Oriented Thinking Quotes

I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

I've never been a fan of just doing. I like to do things for a reason.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

The young players are only thinking about what they can win and that can sometimes be an advantage for you.

I don't think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was a gamble. But it benefited me.

People who know me would know that I take one battle at a time.

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

You have to listen to the anthems, allow the emotion to come, but then need to snap back into the match and your specific task.

Sometimes in life, when we really want something, we can approach it in a way that might actually be closing us off from achieving it.

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

I know not to let myself get distracted and to concentrate on what happens on the pitch.