Quotes of: Aim Keyword

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

Bruce Dickinson

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

Michael Dickinson

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

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

Robert Baden-Powell

Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.

Roy Bennett

...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death.

Socrates trans. G.M.A. Grube

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; it is what it is. It's an adventure film.

Steven Strait

Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.

Kahlil Gibran

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Mortimer Adler

Not once since becoming president has Mr. Obama linked terror aimed at the United States with Islam.

Monica Crowley

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!

Alexander McQueen

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

Larry Harvey

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly.

Jim Gerlach

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

Deng Xiaoping

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

Henry Williamson

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.

James F. Cooper

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.

Kapil Dev

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Peter Singer