Neil Postman Quotes

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

No wind makes for him that hath no intended port to sail into.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

There must be consistency in direction.

Things have to be made to happen in a way you want them to happen. Without management, without the intervention of organized willpower the desired result simply cannot be obtained.

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have. Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.

We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.

Direction determines destination.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"

It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.