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• Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

  Richard Koch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw, interpolated nothing, and read the record of the rocks directly.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Rocks, Records

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.

  Carl Sagan

  Successful, Science, Moon

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• You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

  W. Clement Stone

  Motivational, Meaningful, Target

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• Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

  W. Clement Stone

  Success, Thinking, Mind

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• The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to settle disputes among men according to objective laws ... The greatness of the Founding Fathers was how well they understood this issue and how close some of them came to understanding it perfectly.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Father, Greatness

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• Try this thought experiment. Pretend you're a tyrant. Among your many liberty-destroying objectives are extermination of blacks, Jews and Catholics. Which would you prefer, a United States with political power centralized in Washington, powerful government agencies with detailed information on Americans and compliant states or power widely dispersed over 50 states, thousands of local jurisdictions and a limited federal government?

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Agency, Government

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• Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Perseverance, Effort, Perserverance

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• When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Infinite Intelligence, Two

  "The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity".

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• Science is concerned with what is possible while engineering is concerned with choosing, from among the many possible ways, one that meets a number of often poorly stated economic and practical objectives.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Engineering, Numbers

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• The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Knowledge, Science, Reality

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• Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the soul, till men of science, speculating, in their non-scientific intervals, like other men on what science may possibly lead to, have prophesied that we shall soon have to confess that the soul is nothing else than a function of certain complex material systems.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Men, Soul

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.760, Courier Corporation

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• So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

  Henri Poincare

  Eye, Science, Reality

  "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.

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• The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Military, War

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• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Smoking, Judgement

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• To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time.

  Bruce Jenner

  Next Week, Years, Knowing

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• Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

  Henry R. Luce

  Men, Objectivity, Illusion

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• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  Zhang Yimou

  Views, People, Leisure

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• Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

  George Halas

  Objectivity, People, Purpose

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• It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

  Robert McNamara

  Umpires, Would Be, Nuclear

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• I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

  Jan Carlzon

  Organization, Goal, Important

  "The Art of Loving". Interview with George Gendron, www.inc.com. May 1, 1989.

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• All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sports, Winning, People

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• Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Color, Tree

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

  C. S. Lewis

  Law, Ideas, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The idea that God could only forgive our sins by having his son tortured to death as a scapegoat is surely, from an objective point of view, a deeply unpleasant idea. If God wanted to forgive us our sins, why didn't he just forgive them? Why did he have to have his son tortured?

  Richard Dawkins

  Fear, Son, Views

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