#objectives

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#certainly #country #domestic #eliminate #every

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood. ↗

— Walt Disney

#adulthood #entertainment #ideals #influence #lives

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. ↗

— Hassanal Bolkiah

#develop #especially #finance #financial #insurance

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#east #explicitly #linger #made #middle

The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#artist #artists #expression #objectives #philosophers

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#failure #forget #ideals #objectives #only

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives. ↗

— John Poindexter

#enough #experiments #failure #failures #get

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#including #management #numerical #objectives #quotas

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory. ↗

— James Tobin

#elaborate #foundations #logic #monetary #more