Aim Quotes

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

My aim is to achieve sustainable change, not just make a cute little makeover.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

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

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

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

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.