Simple Goals Quotes

I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

When I came to Mumbai, I only wanted to be an actor, and my approach hasn't digressed over the years. I never really hoped to be in the limelight or wanted to be a star.

I'm just here to play baseball. I'm not going to be on social media or doing any commercials. I'm just here to do my job.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.

To change history you have to have very simple goals.

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.

I don't really look for the spotlight, I don't look for any of that stuff. I just want to play basketball.

Well, mostly I just want to be an actor. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

My ambition was never to make a lot of money. It wasn't to travel around the world. I was really just struggling to make the best pictures I could make.

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

I'm not of the manor born; I've never felt entitled in that way. I just came to Hollywood to be an actor. All that lifestyle stuff is something to be managed.

I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.

Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentuckywhere they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.

I don't have huge intentions to be some big actress.

I want to just do my job and do it well.

My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.