Quotes About Aim

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

The sincerity of delivery is what always strikes me when I hear a good band. It's artist-expression driven, as opposed to being record-producer driven. There's a huge difference. One's motivation is impure, while the other is the highest form of expression, so that's what you aim for.

Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

We have to always set an aspiration for ourselves and then strive to get there.

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

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

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Einstein wrote that the aim of science is to capture the connection between all experiential data 'in their totality' – and to do this 'by use of a minimum of primary concepts and relations'.

That is the most common excuse, and the most foolish of all. Love has never prevented a man from following his dreams. If she truly loves you, she will want the best for you. And anyway, you do not have a woman whom you love; the woman is not yours. What is yours is the energy of love, which you aim at her. You can do that from anywhere.

On a day when you are out of love with life, your aim will be confused, difficult.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Disillusioned words like bullets bark as human gods aim for their mark.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

it seemed, had some purpose, even if that purpose was just to ask for something.

So, what are you really trying to do here, anyway?" (vision, purpose).

ready to fire it like a minié ball.

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

The aim of Zen practice is not to escape or transcend life's discomfort. Zen practice is about plunging into the mystery of daily life just as it is.