Aim Quotes

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.

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

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

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

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

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.

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

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

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

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.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

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.