100+ Aim Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Interview with Christian Tissier Shihan: Aikido as an education system". Interview with Guillaume Erard, Ivan Bel, www.guillaumeerard.com. February 2, 2008.

topic: Art, Martial Arts, Aim

Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.

- Christina Dodd

topic: Way, Aim High, Aim

You can only have one aim per debate.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Debate, Aim

Architecture aims at Eternity

- Christopher Wren

source: Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

topic: Architecture, Eternity, Aim

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

- Colin Greenwood

topic: Trying, Succeed, Aim

Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

- D.T. Suzuki

topic: Aim, Marksman

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

- Donald Miller

topic: Evil, Devil, Aim

There is no art without a poetic aim.

- Edouard Vuillard

topic: Art, Poetic, Aim

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Jargon, Aim, Brevity

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

- Edward Thorndike

topic: Psychology, Helping, Aim

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

- Elizabeth Ashley

source: Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

topic: Art, Target, Aim

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

- Emma Donoghue

source: "Emma Donoghue: the books interview" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

topic: Way, Aim, Wells

It has been claimed that the aim of the present war is to end war. But war cannot end war, neither can militarism destroy militarism.

- Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence

topic: War, Ends, Aim

The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

- Enos Mills

source: Enos Abijah Mills (1920). “The Adventures of a Nature Guide”

topic: World, Aim, Alluring

When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

- Fred Couples

topic: Golf, Aim

The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.

- Frederic G. Kenyon

source: "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.

topic: Editors, Produce, Aim

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

- Frederick Salomon Perls

topic: Fractions, Aim

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

- George Eliot

topic: Produce, Aim, Wanted

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

- George Santayana

topic: Education, Judgment, Aim, Aim Of Education

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.

- Gerald Jampolsky

topic: Spiritual, Protect, Aim

The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.

- Gilbert Highet

source: Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Chiefs, Enjoy, Aim, Aim Of Education

Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle.

- Gilbert Murray

source: Aristotle, Gilbert Murray (1920). “On the Art of Poetry”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

topic: Style, Normal, Aim

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

- Henny Youngman

topic: God, Stupidity, Aim

Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.

- Henry J. Kaiser

topic: Keys, Achieve, Aim

Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low

- Herbert von Karajan

source: "Die 7 Geheimnisse der Dirigenten-Legende". Bild.de, April 4, 2008.

topic: Lows, Aim

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

- Ian Somerhalder

topic: Aim, Direct

Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

topic: Support, Sincere, Aim

If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

- J. Cole

source: Song: January 28th, Album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive, 2014

topic: Lows, Aim

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

- James Ellis

topic: Men, Lazy, Aim, Lazy Man

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

- Janet Erskine Stuart

topic: Positive, Aim

Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

- Jay-Z

topic: Target, Aim

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

source: Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139

topic: Government, Aim, Consumption, Bad Government

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

- Jean-Jacques Annaud

topic: Paris, Planets, Aim

My aim in life is not to judge.

- Jeanne Moreau

topic: Judging, Life Is, Aim

Aim high! The future you see, is the person you will be

- Jim Cathcart

topic: Aim High, Aim, Persons

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

- Johan Huizinga

topic: Culture, Metaphysical, Aim

The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.

- Johann Most

topic: Anarchist, Communist, Aim, Identical

The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.

- John Dewey

topic: Equality, Term, Aim, Global Economy

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

- John Ruskin

topic: Sailing, Compass, Aim

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

- John Smith

topic: Cooking, Sweetheart, Aim

My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within

- Johnny G

topic: Champion, Aim, Humans

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

- Johnny Marr

topic: People, Radio, Aim

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism

- Jonathan Mayhew

source: Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55

topic: Popularity, Aim, Disguise

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

- Joseph Beuys

topic: Art, People, Aim

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

- Julius Wellhausen

source: Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

topic: Thinking, Results, Aim

The aim of the Constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable...The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.

- Karel De Gucht

source: "Dominc Lawson: Pessimism is Brown's enemy on Europe". www.independent.co.uk. October 16, 2007.

topic: Constitution, Aim, Clear, Unclear

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

- Karl Liebknecht

topic: Life Is, Aim, Monarchy

His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.

- Ken Follett

topic: Glory, Aim, Glory Of God

Our Aim Is God: â€œWe must constantly remember our aim is God. And we must not be concerned with anything that makes us forget Him.â€

- Kirpal Singh

topic: Remember, Forget, Aim

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

- Leo Szilard

source: Leo Szilard (1961). “The Voice of the Dolphins and Other Stories”, p.54, Stanford University Press

topic: Scientist, Aim, Colleagues, Clarifying

The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.

- Libbie Hyman

topic: Structure, Aim, Anatomy

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

- Lil Wayne

topic: Music, Aim

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

topic: Spiritual, Goal, Aim, True Education

Aim at being loved without being admired.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Aim, Being Loved

No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.

- Maria V. Snyder

source: Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Spy Glass”, p.173, MIRA

topic: Eyebrows, Needs, Aim

House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.

- Mark Z. Danielewski

topic: House, Addresses, Aim, House Of Leaves

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

- Mary Parker Follett

topic: Unity, Aim

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

- Mary Webb

topic: Poet, Aim

All war aims for impunity.

- Michael Ignatieff

topic: War, Aim

The soul that has no established aim loses itself

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Soul, Aim

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

- Mortimer Adler

topic: Unions, Creation, Aim, Reproduction, Procreation

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

- Nelson Goodman

topic: Simplicity, Aim

The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.

- Nicky Romero

topic: Games, Compromise, Aim, Djs, Never Compromise

[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.

- Nova Ren Suma

topic: People, Miracle, Aim, Ouch

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Men, Leisure, Aim

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Beautiful, Art, Aim

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Perfection, Youth, Aim, Perfection And Imperfection

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Life Is, Aim, Using Me, Heart Ache, Implicit

When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Aim, Discovering, Wanted, Cubism

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

- Peter Baynham

topic: Aim, Disagreement

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Marketing, Selling, Aim, Marketing Plans, Marketing Strategy

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.

- Philip Sidney

topic: Sun, Mark, Aim

The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.

- Pierre Boulez

topic: Feelings, Music Is, Aim

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

- Plato

topic: Plato, Evil, Aim, Good Against Evil

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.

- Plutarch

topic: Book, Latter, Aim, Approving

Excessive severity misses its own aim.

- Publilius Syrus

topic: Missing, Aim, Severity

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

- Rahul Gandhi

source: Times Now Interview with Arnab Goswami, www.hindustantimes.com. January 28, 2014.

topic: Heart, Mind, Aim

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Philosopher, Poet, Aim, Poetry By Famous Poets

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

- Rich Sommer

source: "Mad Men Secrets from Harry Crane". Interview with J.Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 5, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Long, Aim

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

- Robert Forman Horton

topic: Lying, Achievement, Aim, Hereafter, Pressing Forward

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

- Robert Fripp

topic: Aim, Conscience

Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

- Ruth Gordon

topic: Live Life, Morality, Aim

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

- Samuel Insull

topic: Lonely, Rooms, Aim

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Sexy, Aim, Gave Up

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

- Seth Godin

topic: Catchy, Aim, Bother

If we all aim to love ourselves, every bit, we will become love and radiate beauty to all those around us.

- Shantel VanSanten

topic: Aim

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

- Stephen Spender

source: Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.314, Univ of California Press

topic: Accepting, Aim

I'm not going to make it a target, but it's something to aim for.

- Steve Coppell

topic: Football, Target, Aim

I aim to make music for the dancefloor

- Subb-an

topic: Aim

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Sake, Culture, Aim, Pursued

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

- Tabrett Bethell

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Would Be, Aim, Audience

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Aim

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

- Victoria Beckham

topic: Perfect, Dresses, Aim

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

- Walt Disney

topic: Aim, Focused

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

- Walt Disney

topic: Kids, Adults, Aim, Disney Company, Disney Animation

The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

- Walter Reisch

topic: Aim, Ultimate

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

- Waylon Jennings

topic: Aim

I really do not aim at any originality.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

topic: Originality, Aim

When you see your target.your aim is perfect.

- Woodie Flowers

topic: Perfect, Target, Aim

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

- Zooey Deschanel

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Feelings, Aim

Some aim to be deft, others to be laboriously careful. Neither dexterity nor conscientiousness is enough.

- Chai Lu

topic: Dexterity, Enough, Aim, Conscientiousness

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably.

- Dov Davidoff

topic: Telescopes, Window, Aim

Don't aim to plant churches. Aim to plant a church that will plant many other churches.

- George Patterson

topic: Church, Plant, Aim

My aim is to be able to be more spontaneous so I keep evolving my live set-up.

- Gwenno

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Able, Spontaneous, Aim

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.

- Jean-Marc Bustamante

topic: Responsibility, Aim, Viewers

Art is never about provocation and never about human taste. Since the human being is not the measure for art, provocation cannot be the artistic aim. Art is about necessity, not about human will. Society is more and more brainwashed and mistakes itself for art.

- Jonathan Meese

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Mistake, Aim, Human Will, Brainwashed

I don't aim for money. Money never has or will be my motivation. I

- Luis D. Ortiz

topic: Motivation, Aim

The lord giveth and most women piss it away. Perhaps this is why they lack the equipment to aim.

- Paula Wall

topic: Lord, Equipment, Aim

To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.

- Richard F. Heck

topic: Thinking, Argument, Aim

I'm already 30! It doesn't really feel like a landmark. When I started out, my aim was to keep making records. Just because I've reached the 10th doesn't mean I'm going to rest on my laurels now!

- Thea Gilmore

topic: Mean, Aim

We never begin worship. We aim it.

- Matt Papa

source: Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.22, Baker Books

topic: Worship, Aim

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

- Michael Gerber

topic: Dream, Scripts, Aim

Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.

- Dan Hill

topic: Designer, Aim

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

- Giovanni della Casa

topic: Men, Aim, Wells

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

- Sarah Moon

topic: Information, Given, Aim, Markers

My aim is to reflect the actual human-scape, a little bit.

- Victoria Mahoney

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Littles, Scapes, Aim

Our Aim Is God: “We must constantly remember our aim is God. And we must not be concerned with anything that makes us forget Him.”

- Kirpal Singh

topic: Remember, Forget, Aim, Forget Him

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

- Ezra Pound

topic: States, Aim, No Money

But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna karenina (Arcadia Classics)”, p.53, Leo Tolstoy

topic: Civilization, Source, Aim

These people really aim very badly.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Government, People, Aim

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

- Stella Adler

source: Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.32, Hal Leonard Corporation

topic: Aim High, Aim

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Writing, Projects, Aim, Reverie, Essays

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

topic: Literature, Aim, Popular Literature

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

- Francis Quarles

topic: Mark, Aim

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

- Agnes Varda

source: Source: www.believermag.com

topic: Cinema, Aim

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Each Day, Adore, Aim, Intimacy With God, Servant Of God

The aim of every human being is to understand the meaning of total love.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Aim, Humans, Human Beings, Eleven Minutes

Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

- Steven Pressfield

source: Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.15, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

topic: Goal, Resistance, Aim

Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

- Steven Pressfield

topic: Resistance, Aim

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Ambition, Progress, Aim

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

- Freya Stark

topic: People, Moral, Aim

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Aim, Wells

The only means to well-being is to increase the quantity of products. This is what business aims at.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.12, Ludwig von Mises Institute

topic: Mean, Increase, Aim

Be kind. Aim for my heart.

- Alexandre Dumas

source: "Fictional character: Milady". "The Three Musketeers", www.imdb.com. 1993.

topic: Heart, Be Kind, Aim

The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Science, Aim, Particular

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Vigor, Aim, Civilized Society, Civilised Society, Civilised

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

- Gary Snyder

source: Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

topic: Practice, Aim

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Feet, Aim High, Aim

Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.218, Vintage

topic: Opponents, Violence, Aim

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

- Craig Ferguson

source: "Craig Ferguson Plays 'Not My Job'". "Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson, www.npr.org. July 10, 2010.

topic: Aim, Please, Ifs

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

topic: Aim

The aim is never to become a master of the Word, but to be mastered by it.

- D. A. Carson

topic: Masters, Aim

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Action, Common, Aim, Common Good

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Character, Chiefs, Aim, Formation

Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3579, Delphi Classics

topic: Aim, Valuable, Higher

The aim of living is life itself.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Aim

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

- George Harrison

source: Source: www.fifthestate.org

topic: Giving, Going Out, Aim

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

- Dallas Willard

topic: Community, Creation, Aim, Loving Person

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

- Theodore Dalrymple

source: Theodore Dalrymple (2003). “Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass”, p.5, Ivan R. Dee

topic: Pay, When Things Go Wrong, Aim

Whither should we aim if not towards God?

- Andre Gide

topic: Should, Aim, Ifs

I just aim for basketball season to start. I don't really care about anything else in life.

- John Carpenter

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Basketball, Care, Aim

Our aim is a democratic peace.

- George W. Bush

source: Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

topic: Historical, Democratic, Aim

I aim to be a competitive nation.

- George W. Bush

source: Discussion in Panel on the American Competitiveness Initiative, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 21, 2006.

topic: Aim, Nations

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

topic: Mark, Aim, Exaggeration

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.185

topic: Wise, Serenity, Aim

Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

topic: Weed, Aim, Undesirable

All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

topic: Self Reliance, Theory, Aim

I could never really tell you what direction. It's just however God just makes it; that's how all of my albums are. I don't really aim for a direction, but I just pick the best beats I can pick and that's it.

- Ghostface Killah

topic: Albums, Beats, Aim

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

topic: Process, Aim, Vigorous, Organisms

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

- David Attenborough

topic: Way, Aim, Unkind

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.14, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Palaces, Aim, Sewers

How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?

- Rebecca Goldstein

source: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.78, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Making Money, Aim, Worth Living

If you don’t aim for the best prospects, you’re likely to do business with any prospect.

- Todd Duncan

source: Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.133, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Aim, Prospects, Ifs

A reporter shoots first, aims later.

- Reince Priebus

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Firsts, Aim, Reporters

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (1958). “Hasidism and modern man”, Horizon House Pubs

topic: Ends, Aim, Oneself

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

topic: Fruit, Method, Aim

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Purpose, Aim, Wiser

The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Fiction, Honest, Aim

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

- John Piper

topic: Glory, Aim, Ultimate

God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.

- John Piper

source: John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.170, Multnomah

topic: Waiting, Aim, Wait For Him, Those Who Wait

I do not aim to be immediately practical but eternally helpful.

- John Piper

topic: Helpful, Aim, Practicals

Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.

- John Ralston Saul

topic: Imagination, Language, Aim, Elitism

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

- Richard Branson

source: Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

topic: Aim High, Aim, Higher

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

- Tony Blair

source: Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

topic: Intelligent, Educated, Aim

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

- John Wooden

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Crime, Lows, Aim

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.

- Tupac Shakur

source: Song: Hold Ya Head

topic: Inspirational, Tears, Aim

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