Alice McDermott Quotes

We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

You gotta have goals!

Goals. There's not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them.

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.

Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

Everything that I make I use.

Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Nobody wants to hear about process. They want to hear about results. They want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. And so often in our communication, we will explain why - sorry, we will explain how but not why.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.