Aim Quotes
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
George Horace Lorimer
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I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.
Freya Stark
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Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.
Evgeny Morozov
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Concerts have to be seen as a real event for which the aim is to try and feed everybody.
Evelyn Glennie
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People reared in workhouses, as you are aware, are no great acquisition to the community and they have no ideas whatsoever of civic responsibilities. As a rule their highest aim is to live at the expense of the ratepayers. Consequently, it would be a decided gain if they all took it into their heads to emigrate. When they go abroad they are thrown on their own responsibilities and have to work whether they like it or not.
W. T. Cosgrave
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The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.
Carroll Quigley
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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Oscar Wilde
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My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.
Johannes Kepler
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The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.
Albert Einstein
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
Vivienne Westwood
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Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.
Gautama Buddha
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The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
Susanne Langer
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Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
Moshe Dayan
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Ugly reports and conversations are always available to those who would promote the sordid and sensational. None of us are yet perfect. We each have failings that aren't terribly difficult to detect especially if that is the aim.
Marvin J. Ashton
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The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.
Claude Monet
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Los Angeles is not Mexico City, but we have many fine nightclubs and restaurants here. It is enough. One must not aim too high.
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
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The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
Lord Byron
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Alan Alda
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That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
Sebastian Thrun
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The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud
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This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.
Jack Straw
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A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
Robert Baden-Powell
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We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.
Vladimir Lenin