Top 100 Quotes About Aiming
#1. The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead.
Ben Aaronovitch
#2. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
John N. Gray
#3. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.
Benny Lewis
#4. Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides
#5. Living with you will be like
aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect.
Ted Chiang
#6. It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
Ludwig Von Mises
#8. The basic thing a man should know is how to change a tyre and how to drive a tractor. Whatever that bearded dude is doing on the Dos Equis beer commercials sets the bar. That's your guy. Every man should be aiming to be like him. The beard is just the tip of the iceberg.
Timothy Olyphant
#9. The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
Timothy Ferriss
#10. A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.
Fernando Pessoa
#11. Lada imagined she was climbing to Mehmed's side to fight next to him. And then she imagined she would be aiming the cannon at his heart instead.
Kiersten White
#12. Isn't it terrifying how instinctively the arm settles into the aiming of a gun? You've even put your finger on the lever marked Rock'n'roll, and that means you're 1% of the way along the road towards putting me down, shooter. The other 99% is just pulling the trigger.
Mark Crutchfield
#13. Aiming for the stars...there's so much to see out here, I haven't gotten there yet. I'm happy!
Ginger Gelsheimer
#14. Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.
William Klein
#15. Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle.
#16. Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn't necessarily mean I have a target.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. On my Superwoman channel, I am more of a performer, I am aiming to make you guys laugh. With vlogs, it's just me and my day, boring or fun.
Lilly Singh
#19. Satan never wastes a fiery dart by aiming at a spot covered by armor. The bull's eye is located dead center in our inconsistency. That's where the enemy plans to bring us down.
Beth Moore
#20. It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
#21. I once gave my friend his braille book to him upside down and I got a punch in the shoulder. He was aiming for my face but I guess him being blind makes his accuracy terrible.
Haresh Daswani
#22. Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
Theodore Zeldin
#23. It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
Aristotle.
#24. The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.
Ron Atkinson
#25. A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.
Thomas Frank
#26. Then she stretches her legs
toward the ceiling,
aiming for the sky
My sister doesn't know
that I've already been there
Kelsey Sutton
#27. The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
#28. President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That's where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.
Rush Limbaugh
#29. Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea.
Jeanne DuPrau
#30. Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
Dallas Willard
#31. You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.
"You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly.
"Not where I'm aiming, sir.
Terry Pratchett
#32. I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
Sally Schneider
#33. My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.
James Altucher
#34. It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...
Italo Calvino
#35. You need to figure out what you want, Josh. If that means you need to swim against the tide to get it, at least youre aiming for something that could make you very happy.
Jay Asher
#36. In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.
Daniel Boulud
#37. I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.
John Legend
#38. Be your own boss. If you're aiming for true wealth and freedom consider starting your own business.
Timi Nadela
#39. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.
Annie Oakley
#40. You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#41. I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
Anthony Browne
#42. It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
Helmut Newton
#43. It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
Adam McKay
#44. If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.
LeCrae
#45. If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
#46. The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.
Robin Ince
#48. My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
Vladimir Kramnik
#50. I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be
Chris Kurtz
#51. Pa
I did exactly as you said, Pa
I held my head up high..
Even before we got to ten
I was aiming for the sky
I was aiming for the sky
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#52. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Benjamin E. Mays
#53. In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
Karl Popper
#54. To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
Greg Clarke
#55. Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.
Laurie R. King
#56. If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#57. Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave ...
Thomas Sankara
#58. Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.
Diana Wynne Jones
#59. The 77-grain bullet has great penetration, too. I shot one guy through the windshield of a car and hit him in the head, right where I was aiming, killing him instantly. If I had been using the lighter bullet, I think it would have been deflected.
Hans Halberstadt
#60. I never really thought I'd be successful. I never though I'd get books published, but this was something completely beyond me. The fact that it happened is wonderful, but it is not something that I was aiming for.
Walter Mosley
#61. What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.
John Edgar Park
#62. Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I'm not aiming to knock her out. I'm aiming to knock off her fucking head.
J.A. Konrath
#64. It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.
Ludwig Von Mises
#65. I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result.
Alvin Langdon Coburn
#66. Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.
Peter Jackson
#67. An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.
Ludwig Von Mises
#68. Dogs find me irresistible." He lowered his voice to a conspiring whisper, aiming to put her at ease. "It's an alpha thing." Which was true, but was totally outrageous for him to claim.
Jennifer St. Giles
#69. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
Robert Forman Horton
#70. BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.
Norbert Reithofer
#71. I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
#72. It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#73. What do you want to be then ?"
He crooks a finger under my chin,aiming those mysterious slate blue eyes into mine."Unforgettable.
T. Torrest
#75. In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming.
Jan Mckingley Hilado
#76. I'm not looking to be a Big Mac and fries author a la King. I'm aiming at filet mignon and steamed zucchini.
LK Hunsaker
#77. I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
Dan Hawkins
#78. I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
Peter Uihlein
#79. I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.
Ilona Andrews
#80. Live in the moment. Day by day! Tomorrow isnt promised so if you thought about it ... even just for a second ... DO IT!
B.M. Hardin
#81. I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
#82. The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
Idries Shah
#83. This year's campaign marks the first instance that the WFE has gone beyond the Arabian Gulf, aiming to
Anonymous
#84. Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, "Done is better than perfect." I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
Sheryl Sandberg
#85. I can't picture myself starting out aiming to do anything or having much of an agenda.I think in writing a poem, I'm making some tonal adjustments, and it took me a long time to allow anything like fun into my poetry.
Billy Collins
#86. Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well
Libby Trickett
#87. God set His standards this high so that we won't make the mistake of aiming low. He made them unreachable so that we would never have the excuse to stop growing.
Alex Harris
#88. If you're doing something new you've got to have a vision. You've got to have a perspective. You've got to have some north star you're aiming for, and you just believe somehow you'll get there, which kind of gets to the passion point.
Steve Case
#89. There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
Barry Ritholtz
#90. May I make a suggestion," said Will. "About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you'd like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a little to the left-
Cassandra Clare
#91. Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
#92. To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
Vaclav Klaus
#93. Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
Dylan McDermott
#94. I cocked my fist back, remembering what Brendan had taught me. "Don't aim for your target. You'll have more of an impact that way."
I was aiming for China.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#95. He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#97. Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.
Jay Kay
#98. You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products.
Steven Magee
#99. [ ... ] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.
Henry Makow
#100. Sometimes, proceeding in the dark and aiming an arrow at the elusive, mythical dragon trumps all the rational arguments for not proceeding. Sometimes, the stakes are so high and the status quo is so unacceptable that taking aim in any direction is better than not shooting at all.
Rebecca J. Anderson
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