Aim Quotes

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Missionary
  • Useful

• Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Life
  • Design
  • Souls

• We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

  

  Aristotle
  • Means
  • Aim
  • Desires

• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Always
  • Aim
  • Authenticity

• Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Stop
  • Goals
  • Do Not

• 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.

  

  Major Owens
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Aim

• 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.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Attention
  • Aim

• After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Powerful
  • Singing
  • Couple

• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Selfish
  • Aim
  • Experiment

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Spirits

• The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Individualism
  • Harmed

• Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Work
  • Leadership
  • Possibility

• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Aim
  • Brevity
  • Jargon

• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic - to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Exist
  • Aware
  • Devils

• Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Aim
  • Target

• Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Memories
  • Aim
  • Remembering

• If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Virtue
  • Aim
  • Cheerfulness

• If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agreeth as well with monarchy, as God and the devil. ... No bishop, no King! I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • King
  • Devil

• The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Concentrate
  • Seldom

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Reading
  • Inspiration
  • Exercise

• My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Experience
  • Positive
  • Aim

• My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

  

  Tabrett Bethell
  • Audience
  • Just
  • Aim

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