Quotes About Aiming

#1. The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Calm down Weston. It was just a window. I wasn't aiming for your head. - Samuel

Angela Richardson

#3. People feel so guilty about not exercising. Especially people over 50, who feel like they've gone a lifetime without taking care of themselves. Instead of aiming for perfection, you should try to celebrate the progress you're making.

Jack LaLanne

#4. You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said.
Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window."
"Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it."
"Twice."
"Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.

J.R. Ward

#5. It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.

Todd Haynes

#6. I worked with the same producer from The Freebie, my cinematographer was one of my shooters from The Freebie. I was really aiming to tackle a genre, but sorta tackle it in my own way, and put my stamp on it, and the way that I like to see movies made.

Katie Aselton

#7. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

Marilyn Manson

#8. Invest in yourself. Invest in self-discipline. Invest in self-satisfaction. Have complete control over your own thoughts and convictions, and never stop aiming to outdo yourself.

Lionel Suggs

#9. I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

Rob Zombie

#10. If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

Geoffrey Miller

#11. Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.

Nigel Kneale

#12. I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Elinor Lipman

#13. You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you.

Demetri Martin

#14. Go ahead, nigga," Jah said, aiming the pistol at the cabdriver's face. "You got some frog in you?

K'wan

#15. Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Charlotte Gray

#16. When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

Albert Bandura

#17. Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

Haruki Murakami

#18. We gotta be professional about this," Lula said, aiming us toward Route 1. "We need a plan. How about we get the nail polish first, then we get the guy?

Janet Evanovich

#19. A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Victor Hugo

#20. When two people love each other sacrificially, they will find happiness. If they aim for happiness instead of aiming to love, they will ultimately fail to achieve either.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#21. We'd pluck the spiky chestnuts, leaving their green outer shells intact, and throw them at the neighbor boys.
I always took particular care in aiming for Jack's head. He told me later that he rode his bike by my house on purpose. I asked him if he liked pain.

Brodi Ashton

#22. The first priority of the family should be to establish a quality of relationship with each other that is a reflection of an authentic relationship with God. That may have been what Paul was aiming at when he wrote to the church in Ephesians 5 and 6 about the family.

Reggie Joiner

#23. To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

Sri Aurobindo

#24. The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

Paul Klee

#26. Shooting a pistol while running with any accuracy at all is next to impossible. They train us at the Academy to do it at a walk. Slow yourself down, focus on the target. Be relentless, but be accurate. Nobody ever won a gunfight by missing what they were aiming at.

Jonathan Maberry

#27. Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

#28. Are you aiming for our make-up to be
the shortest in history or what?

Kristen Ashley

#29. Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

Frank Herbert

#30. Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.

J.K. Rowling

#31. I am not aiming to become anyone or anything but my full self

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#32. I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

#33. If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#34. Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it ... a speelycaptor ... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.

Neal Stephenson

#35. I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Peter Scott

#36. When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

Jonathan Meiburg

#37. I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

Tessa Thompson

#38. What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.

Saul Williams

#39. You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.

Mehmet Oz

#40. was the state he was aiming for.

J.C. Reed

#41. Whatever you are aiming at in life, willpower is one of your most important resources.

Frank Martela

#42. We think we know where we're aiming, and perhaps we do - but morning comes, and a change in the light, and we find out we should've been trying in a different direction after all.

Sarah Perry

#43. I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.

Manny Pacquiao

#44. Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

Bill Plympton

#45. Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

Ralph Marston

#46. I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

Guy Berryman

#47. When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.

Jesse Spencer

#48. Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid ... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

Ian Holloway

#49. I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

J.R.D. Tata

#50. Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

Maurice Allais

#51. I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!

Taylor Lautner

#52. There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Paul Hindemith

#53. I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at ...

Marco Rubio

#54. One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Katharine Whitehorn

#55. As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations).

Kate Williams

#56. When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

Sinead O'Connor

#57. Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be

Jason Fried

#58. I'm not good at making promises. But I would like you to know I've never been serious about a girl until I met your daughter, and now that I know I'm the first man she's brought home, I'm aiming to be the last.

Katy Evans

#59. Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing to find solutions through peace, through communication, honesty and diplomacy. World peace may seem impossible, but it's worth aiming for.

Demi Lovato

#60. Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?"
"Strike my colours!" cried the captain, "No sir, not I"...

Robert Louis Stevenson

#61. In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

Michael Sandel

#62. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

Annie Oakley

#63. Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions.

Mohammed Rasmi

#64. If I don't fail at something everyday, I wasn't aiming high enough.

Kathryn Orzech

#65. I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera.

Gin Wigmore

#66. "Do it perfectly or Not" ... that what i say
Although i believe that no perfect thing 100% ... but i should to aiming that along the life

Reham Ahmed

#67. I hope everything works in our favor. The show ["Are We There Yet?"] is cool. It's family fare. We ain't aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we're making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.

Ice Cube

#68. She fell, rolled, kicked out with one boot. The alien tripped over her leg and went sprawling, spilling one queen's egg onto its side. Ripley screamed in pain as her wounded leg was jarred, but then she was standing again, aiming the charge thumper and firing her last shot into the monster's face.

Tim Lebbon

#69. Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome ... Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.

Robert Gallucci

#70. He picks up one of the tests and pretends like he's Harry Potter, aiming the test at random objects around the small bathroom yelling, I curse you with my magic wand, punk toilet paper!

Tara Sivec

#71. Spontaneous actions of individuals, aiming at nothing else than at the improvement of their own state of satisfaction, undermined the prestige of the coercive status system step by step.

Ludwig Von Mises

#72. Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

John Piper

#73. Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.

Ian Somerhalder

#74. I feel his intent, his total focus into this moment. He is aiming to reach the centre of my soul. And he will beat me until my soul surrenders and accepts him as her master.

Senta Holland

#75. He crossed his arms again and requested, "You wanna stop aiming your weapon at me?"
Actually, no. I didn't. I wanted to keep aiming my gun at him and I might also want to pull the trigger.

Kristen Ashley

#76. Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.

B.C. Forbes

#77. You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.

Barbara Kingsolver

#78. Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

David Maister

#79. Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

Isamu Akasaki

#80. How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!

Seneca.

#81. She squeezed her thighs together, desperate for relief. Aiming for completion without doing something so deliberate as touching herself. Look ma, no hands!

Kate Meader

#82. By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

#83. It may be that hidden in the poets and writers we love best is a vital clue about the heaven we are aiming for; that we should stay with and return often and with confidence to those lines and images that have most inspired us, even from our childhood.

Malcolm Guite

#84. A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

Samuel Johnson

#85. More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.

Kate Voegele

#86. Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau

#87. Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

Nick Woodman

#88. It is the peculiar nature of the forest, that life and death may ever be found within its bounds, in immediate presence of each other; both with ceaseless, noiseless advances, aiming at the mastery; and if the influences of the first be most general, those of the last are the most striking.

Susan Fenimore Cooper

#89. I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

Stockard Channing

#90. Good shot."
"Not really. I was aiming for his balls.

Laurann Dohner

#91. And I hope we can all agree that aiming for "perfect" is nothing short of bananapants.

Kelsey Miller

#92. Olivia: "Were you aiming at someone?"
Alec: " ... God, I think ...

Diane Chamberlain

#93. If I might 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 bit to the left -

Cassandra Clare

#94. Aiming to check a new test's difficulty, ask your assistants to solve the test prior to the actual exam. If the results are not satisfactory, reevaluate all ambiguous questions and correct them.

Eraldo Banovac

#95. Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

Steven Redhead

#96. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief)

Rick Riordan

#97. No wrong in aiming or applauding the win but always agnize one's efforts.

Mohith Agadi

#98. I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#99. The ideal of a well-stocked mind aiming at excellence in all walks of life has been replaced by the dream of a well-stocked wine cellar, the cellar now being a specially made wine cooler strategically placed in one's house, to be viewed by even the most unobservant visitor.

Dimitris Mita

#100. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

Abdu'l- Baha