If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
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James Cameron, director of Terminator and Titanic, from The New Yorker
James Cameron, director of Terminator and Titanic, from The New Yorker
davidinbcn
on 11 Nov 09nice quote, and so true!
Richard
on 11 Nov 09If you shoot for the stars, you might just hit the moon.
Richard
on 11 Nov 09Or perhaps,
Confuccius, ~500 BC.
TrendyGreen
on 11 Nov 09If you don’t not do it, you will never not know it!
Guillermo
on 11 Nov 09It’s odd that came from the man who’s making Avatar.
JD
on 11 Nov 09Guillermo, wha wha what!? Bring on the blue Jar Jars! I am looking forward to Avatar.
Dante
on 11 Nov 09Cameron said “goals”, but I think he meant “budget”.
“If you set your BUDGET ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
Jim Menard
on 11 Nov 09As our old band’s manager used to say, “If you aim to be a great national act, the worst you’ll be is a great local act. If all you aim to be is a great local act, you won’t get any better than that.”
Jamie, Baymard Institute
on 11 Nov 09To quote David Heinemeier Hansson: “I’d encourage a lot more people to take the better odds at the smaller reward, and then perhaps worry about the billion dollars next time.”
Ryan Waggoner
on 11 Nov 09This has always been my philosophy, but I’ve learned that the biggest risk to this strategy is an internal one: it results in failure more often than success, and while your failures may be better than others’ successes, they still take a psychological toll. It hurts to fail over and over again, even if you know you would have succeeded if you had set your sights a little lower.
So what I’ve started doing is breaking down my “shoot-for-the-moon” goals into smaller chunks that I can accomplish, which gives me that energy boost that success brings.
Ebun Omoni
on 11 Nov 09“Shoot for the stars. If you miss, you still you land on a cloud”
Jerry Waller
on 12 Nov 09Maybe it’s just me, but that quote makes no sense other than to convey a great amount of arrogance and a detachment from reality.
Joel
on 12 Nov 09But if you hit a satellite it’s considered astro-vandalism…
CK1
on 12 Nov 09I’ve also heard it as “If you’re in a gym and you look around and see everybody lifting 50 pounds, make it your goal to lift 200. Even if you only make it halfway to your goal you’re still twice as good as everybody else.”
Berserk
on 13 Nov 09Or to quote/paraphrase Jason.. “You learn more from success than failure”.
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