Quotes About Aim

The universe and the void: I'll return to these two terms, between which swings the aim of literature, and which often seem to mean the same thing.

From his ancestors he had inherited the idea that love is predatory: to take aim, to assault, to lacerate, to devour – then to go away satisfied, leaving behind a carcass, a skin, empty of life.

Whatever the focus of attention, each of these mindful awareness practices involves an aiming of our awareness on two basic dimensions: Awareness of awareness and attention to intention. Such

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.

IT is the aim of Socialism to transfer the means of production from private ownership to the ownership of organized society, to the State.

George Matthew Adams asserts, In this life, we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something you want—even though you miss it—than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Design always has a purpose.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

To play for Liverpool is the dream, the aim, and I can't see it changing to be fair.

Even as simple a task as picking up a glass with the hand requires feedback to aim the hand properly, to grasp the glass, and to lift it. A misplaced hand will spill the contents, too hard a grip will break the glass, and too weak a grip will allow it to fall.

All relationships are teleological.

Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow: without it prayer will not hit the mark.

To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.

All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hubbub.

Feel free to aim for perfection. I like that in a commander and much prefer it to superiors who aim for perfection in their subordinates.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Comes from hunting. A hunter making a fast shot is said to snap it off, never certain he'll hit the target. It's the same with this type of camera, there's no way to see what the lens sees. You aim, hope—and snap.