Primary Objective Quotes

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

Our life must be centred on what is essential, on Jesus Christ. Everything else is secondary.

Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition..

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

I have a Plan B, Plan C, but my Plan A is working, so I'll keep doing that.

Of course my first goal is to save the balls. This is obviously the most important thing as a goalkeeper.

To be honest, football is my main goal. I never really had a backup plan.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

What is the why behind everything you do?

The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal.

A corporation exists to provide jobs for the community. A corporation exists to make charitable donations to the symphony or the homeless shelter or whatever it is. That's not why businesses exist.

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.