Aim Quotes

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The aim of critique is not the ends of man or of reason but in the end the Overman, the overcome, overtaken man. The point… — Gilles Deleuze
Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply… — Ezra Jack Keats
Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness.… — Walter Pater
Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal. — Ban Ki-moon
My aim is to advocate that we make this mental switch in respect of our attitudes and practices towards a very large group of beings:… — Peter Singer
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. — Roy Bennett
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must… — Leonard Woolf
Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love — Chiara Lubich
Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind… — Ludwig von Mises
Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be… — Hugh B. Brown
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives are noble. Their… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. — Benjamin E. Mays
You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I… — Laura Mvula
If you donâ€™t aim for the best prospects, youâ€™re likely to do business with any prospect. — Todd Duncan
Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we donâ€™t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognateâ€”perfectionismâ€”an inhuman aim motivated by… — Sarah Lewis
Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly… — Sarah Lewis
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a… — Bruce Dickinson
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than… — Freeman Tilden
I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man… — Freeman Tilden

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