"It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it."

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Sight Quotes #Goal Quotes #Progress Quotes

“If you're bored, you don't know the real God.”
“Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.”
“When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such great inspiration.”
“The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government”
“Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.”
“Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.”
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”

Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.372, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.”

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