Adam Sandler Quotes

Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

We have to use our reasoning capacity and set long-term goals based on our deepest values.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

I aim for weekly routines with clear goals but make sure I do some stuff that I think I'll value in the long run.

When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Develop a clear vision for your organization. Where do you want to be in five years?