Immediate Goals Quotes

From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.

In the class-struggle the conflict must always concern itself with immediate, practical objects

Never look past the next election, because if you do, you may not get past the next election.

In politics there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Winston Churchill is an entirely bellicose individual…no long term views

I don't think any guy goes into a season worrying about the next season.

Like I tell everybody, we have to win games, forget about the future, and live in the moment.

We always think that the next match is the most important one.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

I think the secret to success is a short-term outlook. So for example, I'm writing the next Killing book now and I have to just make every chapter compelling, so I can't get too far ahead of it. I just stay in the present and then go over what I have to do.

I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

My approach has always been to put 100% into the movie I'm making right now. I think sometimes filmmakers put too much thought into the grand franchise they're going to build. And guess what? If the first movie doesn't work there is no franchise, so I'm always concentrated on making the best, best possible movie right now.

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

Spanish legislation is full of the sternest laws, enacted in utter disregard of their contingent and ulterior consequences provided the immediate object in view can be effected.

I concentrate on the task before me rather then those dim in the future.