Aim famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
-- Alan Kay -
There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.
-- Albert Meltzer -
Aim for service and success will follow!
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.
-- Andrew Lam -
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
-- Andy Richter -
What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
-- Ann Beattie -
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
-- Anthony Hope -
Unity is surely the indispensable thing if meaning is to exist. Unity, to be very general, is the establishment of the utmost relatedness between all component parts... the aim is to make as clear as possible the relationships between the parts of the unity; in short, to show how one thing leads to another.
-- Anton Webern -
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.
-- Aubrey Beardsley -
Yoga aims for complete awareness in everything you do.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
-- Barry Goldwater -
If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.
-- Bat Masterson -
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
-- Bayard Taylor -
Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.
-- Carl Jung -
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love
-- Chiara Lubich -
I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
-- Chris Ware -
One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.
-- Christian Tissier -
Don't just aim high, reach it and grab some happiness along the way.
-- Christina Dodd -
You can only have one aim per debate.
-- Christopher Hitchens -
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
-- Colin Greenwood -
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 -
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
-- Edward Thorndike -
Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.
-- Eike Batista -
Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.
-- Elizabeth Ashley -
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 -
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 -
The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.
-- Enos Mills -
When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.
-- Fred Couples -
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 -
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
-- Frederick Salomon Perls -
What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!
-- George Eliot -
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.
-- George Santayana -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Having an aim is the key to achieving your best.
-- Henry J. Kaiser -
Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low
-- Herbert von Karajan -
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
-- Ian Somerhalder -
Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.
-- James Ellis -
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.
-- Jay-Z -
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
-- Jean-Baptiste Say -
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
-- Jean-Jacques Annaud -
Aim high! The future you see, is the person you will be
-- Jim Cathcart -
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
-- Johan Huizinga -
The aims of anarchists and true communists are identical.
-- Johann Most -
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 -
Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
-- John Ruskin -
Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!
-- John Smith -
My aim is to motivate a human being, to find the champion within
-- Johnny G -
If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.
-- Johnny Marr -
There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism
-- Jonathan Mayhew -
To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.
-- Joseph Beuys -
To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
-- Julius Wellhausen -
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 -
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
His aim was the glory of God, but the glory of Philip pleased him too.
-- Ken Follett -
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.â€
-- Kirpal Singh -
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
-- Leo Szilard -
The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
-- Libbie Hyman -
My aim is just to make good music every single time.
-- Lil Wayne -
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 -
Aim at being loved without being admired.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein -
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 -
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 -
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.
-- Mary Parker Follett -
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
-- Mary Webb -
The soul that has no established aim loses itself
-- Michel de Montaigne -
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
-- Mortimer Adler -
The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.
-- Nicky Romero -
[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 -
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
-- Oscar Wilde -
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
-- Oswald Chambers -
When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
-- Pablo Picasso -
I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.
-- Peter Baynham -
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.
-- Peter Drucker -
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 -
The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.
-- Pierre Boulez -
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
