Unclear Objectives Quotes

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Visit USA.gov and you'll find thousands of directorates, agencies, boards, offices, and services replete with overlapping responsibilities, ancient priorities, and divided accountability.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

We find ourselves in places in the world where our interests require, maybe, limited application of force, involved in strange missions, missions difficult to define and state criteria and exit strategies. So it's much more difficult now. It's not that clear.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

No President or Congressional leader has offered a coherent or credible answer, much less a compelling one, for why our troops have been made to sacrifice so much for so little for so long.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

I'm interested in what stops people getting what they want.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

We suffer not only as individuals from alienation and confusion over our identities and goals; our entire society, conceived as a single entity, seems unclear about its own nature and sense of direction.

... an impossible organization to administer ... just an amorphous lump.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.