Goals Quote by Kiersten White

“Is it not at least occasionally the case that we set out on a clear and simple mission and return with something undreamed of?…

— Lawrence Kushner

“though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest.”

— Various

“nothing was useful which was not honest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“just because you really want to organize your work around a mission doesn’t mean that you can easily make it happen.”

— Cal Newport

“Luckily for me, I didn't know precisely what it was that I'd done to merit a visit from our pack's leader. There were any…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.”

— Allen Steele

“you can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation.”

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“We can no longer afford to ignore the work of others and to plan our missions as though other missions did not exist.”

— Roland Allen

“Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.”

— Saul Bellow

“What was it about being told not to do something that just made you want to do it so much more?”

— T.A. Grey

“It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.”

— Philip Pullman

“The mission, he thought, probably failed because of a series of logical, reasonable, carefully considered decisions, each of which seemed like a good idea…

— Mary Doria Russell