Best 452 quotes in «aim quotes» category

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

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

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

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

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

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

To retire at the top of the game, that's always been my aim.

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.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

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.

Unbeknownst to most fun-loving bipeds, not all stress is bad. Indeed, the New Rich don't aim to eliminate all stress. Not in the least.

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.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

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

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

We never begin worship. We aim it.

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.

When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

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

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

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

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.

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

When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens.

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

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

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.

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

When you see your target.your aim is perfect.

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.

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

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends.

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Yoga teaches you aim for the highest first, and the highest is always love. From there everything else will follow.

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

You can't have a director say, "Just be you"; you have to have an aim. It's like when you throw darts, you have to know where the bullseye is. You can't just say, "No no no no no, drop the darts. Just stand. We're going to film you." You have to get there indirectly. You have to have me doing something, and then you can get "me.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.