Garrison Wynn Quotes

If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.

Garrison Wynn

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• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Health
  • Goal

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Goal
  • Being
  • Gentleman

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• The championship always goes to the team that wins the most rounds and is the most prepared. I think everybody on our team works hard towards keeping that goal. Time will tell if we're prepared or not.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Team
  • Goal

• I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • House
  • Food

• I want my opponents to look at me across the net and just not want to play me because I look so fit and amazing and strong. So that's always my goal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Strong
  • Amazing
  • Goal

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

  

  Wale
  • Goal
  • Need
  • Lifestyle

• Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Goal

• Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Games

• After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Goal

• I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!

  

  Indiana Evans
  • Good
  • She
  • Goal

• When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Goal

• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • High
  • Goal

• A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Bad

• I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Fall
  • Goal
  • Romance

• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Done
  • Serious
  • Study

• I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about the accordian player I was watching on the street last weekend. He said that an accordian is such a perfect metaphor for Love, because you are always opening, and closing, shifting, and getting air, and that's how the music happens. True.

  

  Sabrina Ward Harrison
  • Music
  • True
  • Today

• One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Discovering

• People's view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It's much nicer to hear 'She's pretty' than 'She's pretty - for an Asian woman.'

  

  Sung Hi Lee
  • Changing
  • Exotic
  • Asian Woman

• If you don't have personal goals, you're controlled by those who do.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Goal
  • Controlled