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Success Quote by Chuck Norris

"I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it"

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Chuck Norris selling visualization is almost funny in its simplicity: the guy whose brand is physical inevitability arguing that the first punch is thrown in your head. Coming from an actor-turned-myth, the line isn’t really about mystical “manifesting.” It’s about direction. Norris is translating a working performer’s survival skill - imagining the finished thing before you step on set, into a gym, into a new phase of your career - into a life rule that plays well in self-help culture.

The intent is pragmatic motivation: if you can’t picture the target, you’ll drift, confuse motion with progress, and quit the moment the effort gets boring. “You’ve got to see” is doing double duty. On the surface it’s advice; underneath it’s a warning about attention. Modern life is a feed engineered to hand you other people’s goals in bite-sized, aspirational clips. Visualization becomes a way to reclaim authorship: to decide what success looks like before the world crowds in with its default settings.

Context matters because Norris’s persona has always been about clarity and control: martial arts discipline, action-movie certainty, the clean moral geometry of good guys and bad guys. That’s why the quote lands. It’s not poetic, it’s procedural. See it, then pursue it. The subtext is less “dream big” than “stop being vague.” In a culture addicted to hustle, it quietly insists that the hardest work is choosing the right thing to chase.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Norris, Chuck. (2026, January 15). I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-setting-a-goal-getting-a-visual-image-of-142597/

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Norris, Chuck. "I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-setting-a-goal-getting-a-visual-image-of-142597/.

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"I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-setting-a-goal-getting-a-visual-image-of-142597/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Chuck Norris (born March 10, 1940) is a Actor from USA.

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