Aim Quotes

• The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Community
  • Effort
  • Individual

• Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Aim
  • Marksman

• To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Performance
  • Harmony
  • Aim

• When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5. It ain't to play games with you, it's to aim at you, probably maim you. If I owe you I'm blowin' you to smithereens.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Play
  • Games
  • Ifs

• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Feels
  • Simplicity

• Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own revolutionary culture. This can be done only by creating perfect disorder within the cycle of the enemy culture's life process and leaving a power vacuum to be filled by our building revolutionary culture.

  

  George Jackson
  • Culture
  • Process
  • Revolutionary

• My aim is the United States of Europe.

  

  Ursula von der Leyen
  • United States
  • Europe
  • Aim

• Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel -- it's vulgar.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Powerful
  • Weapons
  • Vulgar

• Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Reality
  • Reflection
  • Photograph

• We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and soil to which they are entitles on this earth. And this action is the only one which, before God and or German posterity, would make any sacrifice of blood seem justified: before God, since we have been put on this earth with the mission of eternal struggle for our daily bread.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Policy
  • National Socialist
  • Foreing

• Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you’re never disappointed.

  

  George Blagden
  • Done
  • Disappointed
  • Proactive

• Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Pride
  • Destruction
  • Guilt

• Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Aim
  • Block
  • Wood

• The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Artist

• The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Science
  • Facts
  • Number

• The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Different
  • Chance

• Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Words

• In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

  

  William Penn
  • Truth
  • Victory
  • Debate

• I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Consumerism

• If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Radio
  • Aim
  • Recognize

• Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Life
  • Aim
  • Self-Preservation

• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Aim
  • Accomplish
  • Transient

• The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Flying
  • Aim
  • Listener

• I was really psyched about crooner types like Frank Sinatra or Scott Walker. Something that comes more from the stomach than the throat. There's an emotional thrust to singing that way that I wanted to try on my own. I can't really sing deep and strong like that, but I wanted to just aim in that direction.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Singing

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