Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.
I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.
In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.
I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.