Aim Quotes

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

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.

My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

My goal, my aim is to be a superstar, but not in a cheesy way. I want to go to America and do what they do. But better!

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

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

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

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

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

My aim and my passion is to own and breed race horses.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

My aim is to create the perfect dress!

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.

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

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

Aim for the highest.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I don't aim to offend.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

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

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

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

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

I aim for a lifetime full of movies.

Unlike Hezbollah, Israel's more modest aim is to survive, and that it has done.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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

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

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

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them.

I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

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

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

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

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

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

My aim in life is not to judge.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.