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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Charles Garfield

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

Arnold H. Glasgow

Fighting against Internet piracy and infringement is a long-term mission and an uphill journey.

Yan Xiaohong

Ironically, what he thought was a mission to bring life into this world cost him his own life.

Jeff Paulsen

This education campaign will be a great tool to advance our mission of preventing and combating immigration-related employment discrimination.

Wan J. Kim

Our mission is to create the right condition for learning with affordability and quality. Hopefully residents will see that. This budget is not going to be an easy task.

Richard Stein

The New Horizons mission is going somewhere no mission has gone before. This is the frontier of planetary science.

Hal Weaver

It's been a mission.

Nancy Collins

It was quite a difficult mission almost from start to finish.

Chuck Dovale

First and foremost will be our commitment to customer service because that is our vision and mission -- to be the best airport in the world known for uncompromising service to our customers.

Steve Toler

Rainbow Tribe's mission is to use dance as a medium to educate the public on the importance of embracing diversity.

Mary Perry

We pass by the mission every day on our way to our clinic in Keizer. And then we had this great idea of giving flu shots to the homeless.

Robin Morton

Our main mission is to increase access and help overcome the digital divide.

Robert Bright

As always, the organization is completely focused on its core mission, the strengthening of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

Patrick Dorton

We're guardedly happy. Meanwhile, we'll go on with our mission as before: training language students. We did it yesterday, we're doing it today and we'll do it tomorrow.

Patricia Ryan

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

Karl Kraus

We probably have enough fuel to do the extended mission, one year and a half, for 468 days.

Don Mccoy

The beauty of this mission is that we don't know what to expect. But whatever happens, we'll learn something.

Donald Yeomans

I don't want to detract from the group's good intentions and time commitment, ... (But) I'm not clear what their mission is.

David Chase

I will not take this mission.

Yang Liwei

Our whole mission is enriching lives through learning. Basically, that means exposing them to everything, whether it's swinging a golf club or developing a picture.

Terry O'connor

I get the feeling that no one needs Melnikov now in this city. It's commonly known that culture is dying in this country. But my mission is to preserve my grandfather's building and protect his heritage, and I'm determined to do that.

Yekaterina Karinskaya

Unfortunately, comments made by guest speakers at the Beyond the Game Dinner did not adhere to our policies or our mission.

Gary Beck

The Healy's mission is to monitor the waters of the Arctic. It makes sense to homeport the vessel in its mission area.

Courtney Boone

The excitement is pretty high for everyone. Any mission is a give-and-receive experience; it's a spiritual growth thing.

Jan Hepler

I didn't ever see past the beginnings, ... All I saw was the good times. But now because of the Good Shepherd Mission I have tools in my life to help me get past that.

Robert Cooper

We're on a capture-and-release mission.

Richard Moyroud

Many people ask about the number 13, linking it to the eclipse and the alignment of the stars. I think everything is aligning for a very good mission.

Marcos Pontes

Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.

Dr. Dre

If I get one little kid to look at this and become a little more patriotic ...;part of my mission is complete.

Scott Lobaido

Many people still don't know exactly what Goodwill does for the community. We are trying to pair local faces with our mission.

David W. Cobb

This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

Pat Croce

The president's proposed budget allows us to concentrate on our core mission.

Kristine Foye

Routinely co-located with units assigned a direct combat mission.

Francis Harvey

Our mission was to verify that the voting centers the electoral council had selected physically existed. It had never been our job to determine the location of voting centers.

David Wimhurst

Until we review all [mission] anomalies, we won't launch another shuttle.

Kyle Herring

One staff member is missing after going on a routine mission to check the water temperature of the lake.

Rolien Elliot

It's going to be a difficult year for NREL. We're going to do everything we can to maintain our mission goals, but the fact that we have to let go some of our top people here clearly will have an impact on our ability to fulfill some of the goals that we've set.

Bob Noun

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals -- my mission is complete.

Lennox Lewis

It was real exciting to break the losing streak. But this year we feel like we're on a mission, to earn some respect.

Sean Brennan

We don't charge for these. These are mission rosaries.

Gloria Woodruff

His mission is to do justice.

Jo White

Politics isn't a job. It's a lay mission.

Walter Veltroni

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Dave Winker

The mission is to really raise awareness so that we can get involved in trying to prevent it from happening.

Linda Krug

We believe the mission of the magazine is to foster dialogue between students and executives, and not between activists and executives.

Michael Kratsios

We're getting there. We're a very highly regarded jazz festival, still very much dedicated to mainstream jazz. Audiences appreciate that we haven't gone too far off the mission.

Carol Stone

Mission accomplished, ... the American public for being so responsive to our pleas and requests for assistance in this investigation.

Brandon Clark

For the Bush administration, technology is mission-critical to everything we do.

Phillip J. Bond

Bush cannot embark on a mission that fails. Given what happened to his father and the hype in this Administration, it would be the end.

Geoffrey Kemp

These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Gene Roddenberry

He looked like he was on a mission out there. Like he had something to prove.

Rafael Chaves

It is really a mission that affects global change. We will have a better quantitative understanding of climate change and a better basis for making policy decisions.

Joe Waters

We will continue to engage in this collaborative process with the goal of implementing a system that aligns with our national security mission.

Joyce Frank

The passion level was really high coming from the people in the room — he commented on the passion. So if you take this as a fact-finding mission ... he heard us. That can only be good.

Susan Tolchin

That's our most important mission.

Patrick Nixon

We're only a few months into this. We knew going into it that it was something that is part of the mission that we're supposed to do.

Catherine Williams

The Coast Guard helicopters took them out and maybe dropped them off in different locations. You can't blame them, because their main mission was saving lives.

Lee Teitsworth

The agency has a mission, and the mission is to get drunks off the road. They also hire the judges. There's no way you can get around those conflicts.

Sam Fields

The mission is to bring Christ to the culture.

Kirk Franklin

Our mission is to tell their history, to keep the memory of the Tuskegee Airmen alive. We also want to motivate children to go into careers in aviation.

Joyce Mason

We're here on a training mission.

Ray Thompson

We've been very conservative about that because of indemnification. Our needs are mission-critical. We really want commercially supported products.

Fred Killeen

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace.

Fatos Nano

It's a huge effort, it's got to be a sustained effort, and we're here with our Pakistani friends, with our allies, working as a team to get this massive mission done.

Karl Eikenberry

There is no personal animosity between the migrants and the Coast Guard in general. We try to do it with the highest degree of compassion and humanitarian concern that we can, but ultimately it is a law enforcement mission.

Ron Labrec

The mission has been extended by another three months, although the official announcement will be made in Brussels.

Faye Belnis

Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years – not just novelties, but technologies that will see mass market demand from consumers and enterprises.

Bob Iannucci

We are looking forward to a long relationship with ASU and hope to make a positive contribution to their educational mission.

Douglas Merrill

Initially it must focus on fulfilling education needs on the South Side. Ultimately, it will have its own culture, its own mission.

Leo Sayavedra

A lot of people in this building were here during the flood of 1993. Half of our mission is humanitarian efforts. We don't just take bullets from one place to another.

Todd White

This is basically a brand new mission starting right now. Come along with us, we're fixing to go on another great voyage of exploration here and see what we can find.

Jim Rice

This is our flagship desktop application and very core to our mission of enabling access to information and making it available everywhere.

Sundar Pichai

It is strictly limited and it should not turn into an unlimited mission.

Christian Schmidt

I just want to impress coach Chappell with my bowling and get a chance to play for India soon. That's my only mission.

Abid Nabi

Part of the library's mission is to work with children, so to see another group in the community working with children is a really good thing.

Beth Fisher

Our industry is dynamic and we have conversations with all the major players in our industry. We will only do an acquisition when it helps us to fulfill our strategic mission, that meets our goals and objectives.

Charles Lee

It really has so little to do with the mission of this district which is educating kids, student learning, achievement and success.

Jim Paloucek

We've been coming along all year. Everybody's pretty excited. We've been on a mission since May and we're just going to keep working towards it.

Melody Davidson

It's our expectation that the secretary-general's mission ... will examine all the circumstances leading to the recent events in Venezuela.

Philip Reeker

You've really risen to the occasion. That's the only mission you had tonight and you did it.

Farley Flex

It was here that he discovered his mission.

Hector Fernandez

It's not a privacy problem, ... It's a mission, goals and methods problem.

James Dempsey

They're on a mission right now. I thought we played very well defensively today.

Greg Amundson

It was all he talked about - his plans for his mission while everyone (his age) was planning to go to college.

Darleen Simonsen

It didn't stop what our mission is for the season.

Deb Henderson

It goes with our mission here at the university. Not only do we want to serve them food, but we want to educate them.

Tom Welton

It's disingenuous to say that you support the troops and you don't support their mission — that's who the troops are.

William Greene

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.

Henry R. Luce

It's part of our mission as a group. We try to mentor weavers and our open house has the goal of letting people try their hands at it.

Margaret Tennis

The F.E.C.'s claims and legal theories are a bizarre interpretation of the club's mission, the Constitution, the laws adopted by Congress and their own regulations.

Pat Toomey

Marilyn restated the mission and really got the group motivated.

Rosemary Opbroek

Our mission for Windows Live is to enable customers to easily find the information, pursue the interests and deepen the relationships that enrich their lives.

Blake Irving

My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.

Frances Moore Lappe

They will embark on a space mission no later than 2010, working as flight commanders or on-board engineers.

Hu Shixiang

I think once it's all over, then I'm going to look back and be excited about what I did. But right now, I'm on a mission and it's not done yet.

Nick Parisi

Those fights didn't have too much affect on me, ... I knew I won regardless of the decision. That's all behind me now. I'm on a mission. My mission is to win one fight at a time and get the belt around my waist.

Ray Austin

Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission in China.

David Ho

If it has failed, it will be a significant hit. It is the contact arm of the mission.

John Callas

What we know about Re-Mission is that for those kids who played the game they did a much better job at adhering to their treatments. Taking their chemotherapy as prescribed. Taking their antibiotics more regularly.

Pat Christen

It really depends on the specific mission and whether you know enough to give those smarts. It certainly is a new tool for scientists.

Joy Crisp

Before we'd go out [on a mission] he make us all rub that little bag, for luck.

Joseph Brown

It conflicts directly with the mission of the church to assist people who come to us and are in need.

Kevin Appleby

We had a very good mission.

Curt Brown

We're not finished. We've got a lot of work to do yet. We're on a mission. We've got four more games to get.

Taurean Green

This mission ... effectively jump-starts us back into assembling the International Space Station.

Ron Dittemore

There aren't numbers I can compare there, just relationships. The committee felt Michelle probably had a better chance of winning a medal. The mission of the international committee is to win medals.

Bob Horen

We want to change one kids' life at a time. That's the simplest way of stating our mission.

Greg Moser

Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.

Larry Merchant

It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission.

Carlton Allen

When I set out to really write the charter for Nick Jr., I wanted to make TV that has as passionate and child-centric a mission as PBS did.

Brown Johnson

That's the most I can remember anyone striking out in all my time here. We didn't go to the plate with a mission, and we didn't make any adjustments.

Chris Cauble

We're talking about 10 years from now and longer, not the current mission.

Robert Maxwell

Ray was on a mission. He had that proverbial scowl on his face. He got a little anxious midway through the fourth quarter. He was getting open. He did a good job of getting open the entire game.

Bob Hill

We are making excellent progress on improving the business in ways that will both advance our housing mission and reward our stockholders.

Richard Syron

The juxtaposition of the mission to Iraq and the response to Katrina really demonstrates the new and changing character of the National Guard.

Daniel Goure

Me and the team, we came together and won. It was great. We just pulled it out. Now we're trying to complete the mission.

Ron Banks

But there seems to be the impression that without Milosevic, Karadzic and Mladic in custody, the tribunal has somehow failed in its mission.

David Scheffer

We are here, and we are here to stay, ... I declare this mission open for business.

James Dobbins

We certainly do not foresee immediately advancing the numbers. The personnel cap will begin to have a deleterious effect on the mission ... U.S. personnel will not be directly on the front lines.

Thomas O'connell

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling . . . An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Dianna Booher

Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future was really important to me growing up because it said when the future comes, there will be people like you who are vital and important to that mission of going out there and boldly exploring.

Levar Burton

We're not going to stock the latest DVD that you can get at Blockbuster. Our mission drives what we buy.

Willie Nelms

Last year was a little different. We came in there and we were really happy to be there, and we also really wanted to win the game. This year it's a good feeling to be here again, but we've got one mission, and that's to come out in first place and win the state championship.

Kevin Love

The only thing we do is focus on this process. We don't have to answer calls for assistance in other places. We're focused and dedicated in one mission and that's why we're able to do what we do.

Patrick Mcdonald

It was hot, dusty, but our training came through and we were able to accomplish our mission.

Rob Dyck

Our mission will be to facilitate development activity and act with a sense of urgency. I think it's fair criticism to say Buffalo has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. That's not how we're going to act.

Anthony Gioia

Wait until you see the science that is going to come back from this mission. It's going to know your socks off.

Howard Eisen

We make kids the focal point. Our mission is the kids, the kids, the kids. Take care of the kids.

Howard Corcoran

If my action causes people in our community to pay more attention to what they watch on television, I have accomplished my mission.

Duane Lammers

We are very focused on the senior market. I don't think there is a business in here that is more mission critical.

Dan Bauer

Certainly we have an ethic, from the director's office on down, of being responsive to the public. It's part of our mission.

Jeff Koenings

We appreciate your patience in hanging in there with us. We hope you have a great mission to Hubble, and we'll see you back here before the next millennium.

Dave King

Maytag is on a mission to close our plant.

Jim Repace

The on demand delivery model is more than capable of handling mission critical functions.

Greg Gianforte

We can be exasperated, and certainly are, but that doesn't reflect on determination to carry out the mission.

Janet Norwood

As a freshman, she was one of the fastest in WPIAL. After missing last season and seeing what she could have accomplished, she's on a mission this year.

Kevin Clougherty

He was on a mission tonight.

Scott Radeker

We'll get it all put back together. This is our mission.

Gwendine Norton

What our mission is, without getting too hyperbolic, is to go into the Annapolis and Frederick races and use them as a microcosm as to what will happen next year. We're making sure everybody knows all the races are important to us.

Josh White

We're going to carefully prepare this mission. It's not easy to go to a country like India where we don't have a presence.

Jean Charest

We'll put our best foot forward. We feel very capable of taking that mission.

Pat Mcelgunn

I thought it was really cool because you got to do all these probe things and it was kind of like an actual space mission. You got to do things like you'd do on an actual rocket.

Aaron Edwards

Eventually the US Army will go back to Afghanistan. They've got to get back to that mission.

James Yonts

We will evaluate it go through each of the recommendations. Of course it's going to have to be a prioritizing of what is financially feasible and what is practically feasible and whether it goes with our mission or not.

Judy Outlaw

We are a call and response, call and response place. Our mission from the beginning was not lose hope. If you do not stand strong, you will be destroyed.

Albert Mazibuko

With the agency's go-ahead, we can proceed with this intriguing mission that will explore two asteroids from deep in the heart of the asteroid belt.

Charles Elachi

She knows this is her life. She accepts it. It's almost her mission in life to touch others.

Marilyn Smith

Iraq has been a conflict without timelines, without an exit strategy and indeed without a mission statement from day one.

Tom Cameron

This mission will be a milestone for both the station and shuttle as we complete a major phase of the station's assembly.

Ron Dittemore

No member of this contingent will ever go on a peace mission or other assignments outside this country.

Sunday Ehindero

If you say your mission is to win, I can't work with you. You can be vastly immoral and win.

Sharon Stoll

There's certainly an element of mission risk. Not safety risk, mission risk.

Ron Dittemore

It's disingenuous to say that you support the troops and you don't support their mission that's who the troops are.

William Greene

We made it our absolute mission to do regional coverage, not just coverage from one city.

Karen Adams

This is an important position at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He will be ensuring that we are meeting our mission. We're really looking forward to having him here.

Vincent Petrini

Chinese people are very friendly. When we shot down the Japanese fighters on the first mission, people gathered around and brought us flowers, fruit and decorations. It's quite touching because they really didn't have much else.

John Rossi

We don't want to shut something down that could prevent us from completing that mission.

Robert Lightfoot

But our business is horizontal. Every business has mission-critical data.

Bud Stoddard

Part of the survey really shows there are misconceptions, and part of our mission is to clear up these misconceptions.

Joe Madeira

Pike was a very dedicated soldier on a mission for his young country and filled with patriotism.

Deborah Espinosa

From its inception, Fleisher's mission has been to guarantee access to professional arts instruction, especially for minority and low-income populations.

Thora Jacobson

We know that this (U.S.) mission that is coming aims to establish contacts that our government considers very important.

Alex Contreras

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Abdul Kalam

This was the first (advisory support team) mission that flew humanitarian airlift for their country.

Bob May

We're trying to push our education mission to meet the avocations of people, or their external interests.

Gary Turner

Documentary filmmakers are an itinerant group of people, and at the core of their mission is going out and bringing back stories that aren't been told in the mainstream media.

Sean Farnel

This is a big deal. Sexual harassment is not really a cut-and-dried thing. But our mission is to be fair.

Jim Shea Sr

We will have an educational mission as well as a research mission, ... But our principle mission will be to build research.

Larry Cook

The security mission, which has always been there, has gone more to the forefront.

John Turner

That was an extrapolative and speculative mission. They had to make speculative guesses as to whether there was water there, or methane or ethane.

Mark Brake

I'd say he was just a man on a mission all year. He wanted to get back to that championship match, and he ended it like he wanted to.

Jason Emmons

This acquisition is consistent with our mission to become a major player in the telecommunications industry of the future.

Charles Brewer

He was set up by the Liberals, and he's being set up by the Conservatives, as the lightning rod for public discontent if this mission should go really sour. It's not his call.

David Rudd

How exciting it is to see the unprecedented amount of high- resolution data that the mission will provide.

James King

Yale?s capacity to fulfill its ambitious mission has been greatly enhanced by their superb stewardship of the endowment.

Richard Levin

It's just a sneak attack. They were on a mission to kill Planned Parenthood, and they killed everybody else instead.

Claudia Stravato

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Keith Warren

Hubble has always been this icon in terms of a mission assignment.

Nancy Currie

It really doesn't matter what they're challenged with, ... they always seem to accomplish their mission.

Steve Warren

On behalf of the crew on Alpha, I'd like to commend Endeavour and its crew for the tremendous technical challenge and the great achievements ... I can't think of a mission that we've flown in a long time that's been a bigger challenge.

Bill Shepherd

A flight to quality remains the front mission of the Street's investment banking community.

Jeffrey R. Hirschkorn

As painful as these changes may be, Dr Pepper/Seven Up cannot afford a 'business as usual' attitude given our mission to manage for value.

Todd Stitzer

We have to prioritize our mission _ to go after the highest priority _ and that would be criminal aliens, who are a higher threat to the public than non-criminal aliens.

Carl Rusnok

He truly believes in Pacific, and that's an absolute must if you're going to be really successful here. You have to be able to embrace what the school is all about, and Bob embraces the mission at Pacific.

Lynn King

They're what got us home from the space mission. They're why I'm able to be here today.

Fred Haise

These new draft policies maintain our strong commitment to the fundamental mission of the NPS to protect and allow for appropriate enjoyment of the parks.

Stephen Martin

I'm using labor out of the mission. I'm trying to teach guys the different trades, trying to help them, so maybe, when they leave here, they're not going to have to go out and get a $6-an-hour job.

Patrick Murray

We've been around for 12 years. Mission work is all we do.

Mark Hogg

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

William Morris Hunt

Our mission is to be the leading-edge supplier of healthy pet foods for dogs and cats. We have helped some of the most finicky eaters, but more importantly, we have helped thousands of dogs and cats live longer and healthier lives through proper, advanced nutrition.

Ron Mayert

The mission is to understand what a comet is made of and how it's put together.

Donald Yeomans

Eric was on a bit of a mission. He heard me talk about Carmine all week to our hitters and he had to prove that he could match him.

Clyde Metcalf

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Richard Burr

Cassini will probably execute a flawless mission around the Earth if it can make the last hurdle through 8,000 pieces of 'space junk' surrounding the Earth.

Michio Kaku

It has become part of my getting up in the morning. I'm on a mission.

Rosa Johnson

We have taken a beautiful 360-degree panoramic image, which I truly believe will be one of the signature accomplishments of this mission.

Steve Squyres

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

Jane Goodall

If we'd have lost I would have said it would be mission impossible.

Dario Gradi

But excess funds from operations will not completely fund these critical parts of our mission. We continue to partner with foundations, benefactors, government and industry to accomplish mutual aims.

Robert Smoldt