Aim Quotes

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I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust… — Ayn Rand
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with… — Carl Jung
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to… — Philip Roth
Warringtonâ€™s aimâ€™s so pathetic Iâ€™d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. — Zig Ziglar
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,… — William Faulkner
Ester asked why people are sad. "Thatâ€™s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main… — Paulo Coelho
The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the… — Erich Fromm
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre,… — H P Lovecraft
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight. — Thomas Hardy
Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless… — Sue Monk Kidd
Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman… — Bruce Lee
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle
Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to… — Margaret Atwood
The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. — Marianne Moore
Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we… — Orson Scott Card
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand

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