Aim Quotes

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

You can only have one aim per debate.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

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.

Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

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

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

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