Objectives Quotes

• I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Philosophy
  • Objectives
  • Creeds

• Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

  

  Ari Kiev
  • Successful
  • Activity
  • Objectives

• One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Play
  • Surprise
  • Opponents

• A stakeholder in an organization is (by definition) any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization's objectives.

  

  R. Edward Freeman
  • Individual
  • Achievement
  • Objectives

• When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • News
  • Views
  • Propaganda

• I was confident that it would not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.

  

  Calvin Cheng
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Partisans

• You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Failures
  • Pushing
  • Objectives

• I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

  

  Michael Lee-Chin
  • Customers
  • Managers
  • Assets

• Strategy is important, but trust is the hidden variable. On paper you can have clarity around your objectives, but in a low-trust environment, your strategy won't be executed.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Environment
  • Strategy

• You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Years
  • Looks
  • Stuff

• If you do not assume the law of non-contradiction, you have nothing to argue about. If you do not assume the principles of sound reason, you have nothing to argue with. If you do not assume libertarian free will, you have no one to argue against. If you do not assume morality to be an objective commodity, you have no reason to argue in the first place.

  

  William J. Murray
  • Reason
  • Morality
  • Arguing

• The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

  

  William J. O'Neil
  • Trying
  • Simple
  • Marketplace

• Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.

  

  William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
  • Opinion
  • Intellectual
  • Atheism

• The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • World
  • Reflection
  • Order

• Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.

  

  William Fleming
  • Science
  • Principles
  • Connected

• The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Moving
  • Imagination
  • Management

• The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

  

  Stefano Langone
  • Focus
  • Goal
  • Steps

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