Steven Pinker Quotes

You gotta have goals!

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

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

It's good to have a goal.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Goals are as essential to success as air is to life.

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

You really have to have a goal.

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

I wouldn't do anything if I didn't have something I was working for.

Without a goal there can be no real success.

Purpose is stronger than object.

Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.

You can do bigger and bigger things. For what?

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.

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