It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.
What I've always tried to do is pick short term goals.
I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.
Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
The end is what you want and the means is how you get it.
All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.
I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
The art model of problem solving is incredibly efficient because ideology has no place there.There's only the thing and what the thing needs to be.
Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.
The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.
To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness.
Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.
I think of myself as playing against the board, and not against my opponent.
What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.
In business, as in baseball, the prizes go most often to the organizations that pursue their objective hard and relentlessly every day of the year.
