Sentence examples for set himself a goal from inspiring English sources

Like a man possessed with a need to tell a story, Bean, now 62, has set himself a goal of producing 200 paintings of the lunar missions.

He listened avidly and set himself a goal: to read Friedrich Engels's "Condition of the Working Class in England" in its original English.

Having read that van Gogh had set himself a goal of single-mindedly drawing the figure for a year, Perry focussed so intensely on his drawing that he didn't go out at night for two years.

Mr. Sacks, a third-year law student at Georgetown, had set himself a goal, now shattered: he wanted to be the first person in line for every major argument this term.

If you remember, Mr. Vratsanos set himself a goal to have a crossword puzzle published in The New York Times before he graduated from high school, and he succeeded.

Although he only started in buy-to-let in 2000, he has amassed 672 properties and has set himself a goal of 1,000 homes, with all the mortgage debt paid off by the time he reaches his 70s.

Chris is a guy who, when he sets himself a goal, he really puts in a lot of effort and work to achieve it.

His efforts from spring until autumn were dedicated completely to a career in poetry, alternating between writing long and short poems, and setting himself a goal to compose more than fifty lines of verse each day.

Nevertheless, Leo set himself a clear goal.

But Watson appears equal to any challenge in this tournament, having set himself a personal goal of emerging as its dominant player.

Attracted to new genetic tools that could, for the first time, address questions about cancer susceptibility, he set himself a new goal: to study how genetic differences in cellular DNA repair affect people's risk of getting cancer in the first place.