
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Topic: Goals, Planning, Preparation, Vision
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Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
› Abraham Lincoln
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
› Lewis Carroll
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
› Victor Hugo
It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.
› Edgar Guest
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
› Ulysses S. Grant
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
› Bruce Barton
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
› Nelson Mandela
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
› Harriet Martineau
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
› Tony Robbins
What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
› Joe Namah
The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you're doing.
› Michael Jordan
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
› Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
› Charles Schwab
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
› Abraham Lincoln
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
› John F. Kennedy
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.
› Nikola Tesla
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
› Isaac Newton
