"The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break."

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Source : Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

Rick Hansen

#Goal Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“Peace is produced by war.”
“The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The Progress of a Biographer”
“I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.”
“I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.”
“And believe it or not, a new record from Philly's greatest, the Roots. It's kind of bitter sweet, to be honest. Well, maybe not so bitter. It's called "Rising Down."”
“I personally hold Blair more responsible for this war than I do George Bush. The reason is, Blair knows better, Blair is not an idiot. What is he doing hanging around this guy?”
“This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.”
“Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.”

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