Aiming Quotes
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Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.
Haruki Murakami -
The Witch had been aiming straight for her head, intending to tear it off. (Dear little creatures, these Witches, aren’t they?)
Cressida Cowell
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I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
Bart Cummings -
We used to think that we were aiming at the head and the heart, rather than the groin. The Stones did raunchy. You need balance. 'The Other Side of Life' was a try to get a really raunchy, dirty song, and it just didn't come out that way. We can't seem to make the crossover.
Graeme Edge The Moody Blues -
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.
John Stuart Mill -
Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination!
Alexander McQueen -
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides -
BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
Norbert Reithofer
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The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Tim Ferriss -
We are aiming high in the Champions League and you will see a different team on Tuesday...
Oliver Kahn -
The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.
Ben Aaronovitch -
We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.
Stockard Channing -
Normally the police like to turn up nice and early, preferably around 6 a.m., because not only are people liable to be actually at home but that early in the morning they’re rarely playing with a full deck. Today we were going in Sunday lunchtime because we weren’t looking for shock and awe but aiming for sinister and creepy instead.
Ben Aaronovitch
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The transatlantic record is there and that's something I'll be aiming for.
Ellen MacArthur -
Whatever you're aiming for, God's better.
Bob Goff -
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.
Ernest Sosa