Goals Quote by Richard Yates

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

— Richard Yates

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams

“But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them,…

— Peter Pouncey

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...He found himself filled with joy, for now his existence had a meaning. He had a future, because he was part of a world…

— Orson Scott Card

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“...[he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily…

— Arthur Phillips

“he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.”

— Michael Wolff

“We find our life not in our priorities but in his, not in our pursuits but in his purposes.”

— Bryan Chapell