Quotes About Aim

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

The trouble with a target-rich environment is that it's useless if you don't know which target you have to aim at.

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!

return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!

close only counts in hand-grenades and horseshoes.

To aid in targeting the right level of information, we aim for 5 to 15 serial process blocks

It's unclear whether Brauser was trying to hit Franz Josef or Rangi. I hope it was the former. There's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.

That's one difference between a bully and a hero, I guess: good aim.

Desire is an end in itself: it seeks only more desire, not fixation on a specific object.29

The aim of the self-willed man is growth. — A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth. He values only one thing, the mysterious power in himself which bids him live and helps him to grow. His only living destiny is the silent, ungainsayable law in his own heart, which comfortable habits make it so hard to obey but which to the self-willed man is destiny and godhead.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it is a big compliment that they were so motivated to stop us but it was very tough to face two matches like that so close together. Suddenly three trophies are down to one.

I cannot control what people think. But I can control myself and my aim, and my head is focused on trying to win trophies.

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

As Meister Eckhart wrote in The Soul Is One with God, the ultimate aim of the mystic is identity: "God is love, and he who is in love is in God and God in him.

My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.

Those whose enduring object is power in this world are only too happy to use without remorse the others, whose aim is of course to transcend all question of power. Each regards the other as a pack of deluded fools.

what they mean by 'love conquers all.' It doesn't transcend life. But it gives it integrity, a noble aim, no matter what the result.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. - Bruce Lee

He made himself as small as possible behind the parapet, holding the gun awkwardly above it, and aimed by the screensight image patched to his glades. His trigger finger pressed Enter. The weapon took over, it aimed him. In a second the head-up image showed four bodies, sprawled, stapled down like X- and Y- chromosomes.