Goal Obsession Quotes

When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.

There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Every striker from England I know is the same; they're greedy and they want to get goals.

Of course a striker wants to score as much as possible. It's nice scoring goals. Goals are like an addiction: when you score, you want to keep doing more and more.

People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.