Aim High Shoot Low Quotes

#1. Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. However, he didn't have a high opinion of the average man's ability as a fighter. The majority of men couldn't fight at all and even most outlaws were the merest amateurs when it came to battle. Few could shoot well, and even fewer had any mind for strategy.

Larry McMurtry

#3. I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

Terry Teachout

#4. I don't mind a little disappointment now and then. It just means you've got high standards. I'd rather shoot high and be disappointed sometimes than just live in the middle with the illusion of being satisfied.

Priscilla Glenn

#5. You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers ... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!

Jeff Foxworthy

#6. Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights.

Massad Ayoob

#7. I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

Ralph Fiennes

#8. Filled with a new sense of purpose, I downed half my coffee at one draught. It was good, strong stuff, the kind that Louis L'Amour used to say could float a horseshoe. Nobody ever drank weak coffee in his books. It was probably why they were so anxious to shoot people at high noon.

Kevin Hearne

#9. I don't believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you're in trouble.

Bob Menendez

#10. Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Bear Bryant

#11. I hate when the sun is high and there are no shadows. If I could do super high-budget movies, I would only shoot when the sun starts to get low - but you can't just shoot for four hours every day.

Susanne Bier

#12. In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Bob Beamon

#13. Maybe Piper could shoot their enemies with high-velocity smoked hams.

Rick Riordan

#14. When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Gina Bellman

#15. The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot 'Mr. and Mrs. Bridge' in Kansas City.

Jason Wiles

#16. Pam," Issy attempted, voice high with fear. "I can tell you, from this side of the fence..you really need to calm down."
"I will shoot you in the face if you say one more word to me," I fumed.
"So noted."
"I am so glad that I am an only child," Coalhouse remarked quietly.

Lia Habel

#17. A career high was when I did a cover for 'W Magazine's July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.

Joan Smalls

#18. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys in high schools with men teachers (not sissies), close all the girls' finishing schools, shoot all the effeciency experts and become a nation of God's people once more.

Harry S. Truman

#20. Give it to me, Wildcat boys!
You can be my Wildcat toys!
Bounce your balls and shoot 'em high.
Ridley's come to Jackson High.

Kami Garcia

#21. With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them.

Louie Schwartzberg

#22. She nodded, taking his pistol and showing him the button to release the empty clip.
"Where did you learn how to shoot?" he asked.
"I teach high school.

J.A. Konrath

#23. I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for.

Bobbi Brown

#24. Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Ernest Hemingway,

#25. You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

William Shatner

#26. I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

Laurel Lea

#27. Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

Phyllis Diller

#28. Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#29. I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

Garry Marshall

#30. You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

Busy Philipps

#31. I've always wanted to shoot a good percentage for my team, because I'm the point guard, and I can take fewer shots, still score more, so that I can get my teammates feeling good about themselves. That was always my feeling - that if I shoot a high percentage, I don't have to shoot a ton.

Steve Nash

#32. Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then ...

Shaquille O'Neal

#33. I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.

Kat Graham

#34. We are an institution of high learning and higher manners. We simply cannot shoot first; it isn't done. Now, remember that, Miss Temminnick, do - a lady never shoots first. She asks questions, then she shoots.

Gail Carriger