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Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. -- Horace
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows. -- Bill Rodgers
Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless. -- Michael Sandel
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
Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the restoration of normal human functioning, which is an important part of human flourishing. -- Michael Sandel
Really, what I'm aiming for is world domination! -- Alexander McQueen
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. -- Euripides
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. -- Thomas Fuller
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience. -- Paul Hindemith
Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it. -- Peter Jackson
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. -- Alan Kay
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. -- Aristotle
Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. -- Walt Disney
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
I'm concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I'm aiming for, which is not such a good thing. -- David Byrne
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
As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone. -- Stephen Hawking
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it. -- Yoko Ono
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
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
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 J. Toynbee
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
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. -- Mary Kay Ash
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
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
Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart. -- Peter Guber
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia. -- Gary Bauer
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
I've done four videos for older people under my new brand, Prime Time, and the missing link was yoga. I'm aiming it for older people - people who have never worked out or who are recovering from a surgery and have to start slow. It's easy, you can't get hurt, it's very doable, and I've done it in ten-minute segments. -- Jane Fonda
I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all. -- Oscar Pistorius
Stop blaming and start aiming. -- Rob Liano
Whatever you're aiming for, God's better. -- Bob Goff
I'm aiming to become the white Oprah. -- Janice Dickinson
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming. -- B. C. Forbes
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. -- Paul Klee
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! -- Omar Bongo
I'm not aiming to be someone like Christina Aguilera. -- Gin Wigmore
Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for? -- Daniel Gilbert
I'm not shooting for happy. I'm aiming for comfortable and fat. -- James Maxey
I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background. -- Tim Harford
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution. -- Martin Firrell
The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box. -- Ron Atkinson
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is. -- Stockard Channing
Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf. -- Charlotte Gray
I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. -- Rick Riordan
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. -- Edmund Waller
What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality. -- John Edgar Park
If you don't start out aiming for the big game, you almost never can get there. -- Reid Hoffman
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans. -- Muhammad Ali
I only want to hit my targets if the aiming and the hitting both feel good. -- Danielle LaPorte
Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy. -- will.i.am
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way. -- Barry Ritholtz
I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at... -- Marco Rubio
My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure. -- James Altucher
You should be aiming to illuminate your indoor daytime environment with natural outdoor light, not electrical lighting products. -- Steven Magee
Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me. -- J. K. Rowling
If people are not laughing at your dreams at least once a week, you are aiming too low! -- Robin Sharma
You are ten times more likely to get hit by a car when the driver is aiming for you. -- Demetri Martin
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies. -- John Dewey
I affirm that any sort of photograph is superior to any sort of painting aiming at the same result. -- Alvin Langdon Coburn
I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do. -- Nick Woodman
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
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. -- Emilie Autumn
Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. -- Susan Sontag
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
If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high. -- lecrae
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
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish -- Ian Holloway
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. -- Hugo Black
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
[...] 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
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
If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. -- Jacques Lacan
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
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts. -- Fred Couples
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up. -- Bart Cummings
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
Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will -- Ludwig von Mises
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
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
Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless. -- Fabio Capello
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
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
I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria. -- Gavrilo Princip
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside. -- Dallas Willard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all. -- Edmund Waller
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
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
Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low. -- Shai Agassi
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
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
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
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. -- Alexander Pope
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

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