Aim Quotes
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.
The Kyoto Protocol is a death pact, however strange it may sound, because its main aim is to strangle economic growth and economic activity in countries that accept the protocol's requirements.
If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
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.
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.
At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.
Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.
The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.
When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.
Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.
I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
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.
Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier and it will come naturally.
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last the rest of their lives.
There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.
I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?
You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap.
Perception of ideas, rather than the storing of them, should be the aim of education.
