Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.