Aim Quotes

• Philosophy is not a matter for adjustment, as a means, to national requirements, but every nation and individual that cultivates philosophy should aim at having a true philosophy.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Aim

• Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil.

  

  Plato
  • Remember
  • Aim
  • Pursuit

• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  

  Carl Orr
  • Music
  • Fails
  • Listeners

• It is my aim to win the american people over to our side, to make them all lovers of beer.

  

  Adolphus Busch
  • Beer
  • Aim
  • Side

• Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.

  

  Emily Gould
  • Fiction
  • Distinction
  • Memoir

• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Artist
  • Move
  • Immortality

• The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

  

  William James
  • Simplicity
  • Aim
  • Complexity

• The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

  

  Halford Luccock
  • Person
  • Transformation
  • Subject

• Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Political
  • Way
  • Revolution

• The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Character
  • Aim
  • Formation

• 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

• You will never break up my home. I know that’s been your object for years and the aim of all your secret maneuvers. I love my children as no man ever loved his before. I know men love their children, but mine are bound up in me, part of me.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Children
  • Love
  • Secret

• At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Aim
  • Cinema

• My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Satisfied
  • Collectors
  • Painting Machine

• Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other--there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow--its contribution to the welfare of all.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Greatness

• My aim has been, not only to go once more through the task of Albert Durer, but to execute it also on an extended scale.

  

  Adolphe Quetelet
  • Aim
  • Task
  • Scale

• The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Government
  • Rule
  • Aim

• The "Toy Story" films accomplish what timeless classics aim for - innocent characters who face an endless trail of adventures.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • Films
  • Toy Story
  • Innocent characters

• My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

  

  David Batstone
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Communities

• My aim is to create a happy environment where the players are working hard, but enjoying themselves. You've got to enjoy yourself, and you've got to have a bit of fun as well.

  

  Warren Gatland
  • Environment
  • Enjoy
  • Aim

• Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Successful
  • Facts
  • Theory

• What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.

  

  Steve Stoute
  • Successful
  • Aim
  • Businessman

• Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.

  

  Anil Sinha
  • Achieve
  • Aim
  • Wished

• Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

  

  Eugenie Scott
  • School
  • Religious
  • Religion

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