Aim Quotes

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

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

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

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

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.

As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

I aim to please. I'm nothing if not a vaudevillian.

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

My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

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

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

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

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

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

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

I'm not trying necessarily to become a movie star; that wouldn't be bad but that's not the aim. I'm just trying to do interesting things and go into areas where I've not been before.