Often the problem with goals is not setting them, but sticking to them when motivation flags. For more on sticking to your goals, read my Ultimate Guide to Motivation.

通常，问题不是发生在设置上，而是在坚持努力时失去原动力的时候。为了坚持你的目标，大家可以阅读我的“动力的终极指导”。

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The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

如今互联网初创公司热潮的问题并不在于有太多人开始创建他们自己的公司，而是在于有太多人并不能坚持下去。

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Often the problem with goals is not setting them, but sticking to them when motivation flags.

实现一个目标的难点不在于目标的制定，而是在失去动力的时候如何继续坚持下去。

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The question then for the countries with warships in the region is this: Do they have the long-term commitment to keep funding a force that is at best a sticking plaster for the problem?

BBC: Somali pirate patrol: Day five

He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.

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The retention of key managers had been a sticking point in this deal, a problem Glencore sought to resolve via a juicy bonus package for those who stuck around for at least two years.

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