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Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention. -- Mason Cooley
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency." -R. Daneel Olivaw -- Isaac Asimov
The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. -- Robert Gottlieb
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan. -- Don DeLillo
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. -- O. Henry
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. -- John W. Gardner
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you. -- Susan Minot
I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.' -- Dustin Moskovitz
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I didn't want to be thirtysomething and not know what I was going to do. I was quite afraid of that, there were quite a lot of aimless kids around, in that 'other' side of my life, who didn't really know what to do because they always had a bank balance to fall back on and they were quite lost. -- Stella McCartney
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Even aimless journeys have a purpose... -- Tony Horwitz
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding. -- Mason Cooley
without music he felt aimless and adrift. -- Nicholas Sparks
They aimless halt, who halt for others. -- Swami Vivekananda
Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless. -- Michael Porter
Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can. -- Don DeLillo
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. -- Susan Cain
But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was. -- Aspen Matis
The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box. -- Ron Atkinson
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. -- Henry David Thoreau
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering. -- Alfred Wainwright
There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life. -- Robert Browning
Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events -- Michel Faber
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. -- Jess C Scott
Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time. -- Kobo Abe
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. -- Madame de Stael
It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control. -- Chris Fabry
Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy. -- Garry Kasparov
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. -- Franklin Pierce
To the aimless man all men are equal, but to him with purpose some men are seed and others weed -- Agona Apell
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. -- Plutarch
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination. -- William George Jordan
Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless. -- Mahmoud Darwish
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. -- Marcus Aurelius
If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell. -- Lee Hyung-chul
We all know them "? the unstructured person whose every action seems aimless and the totally organized person whose every action defeats some purpose. -- Robert Breault
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. -- Henry David Thoreau
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.... -- William Butler Yeats
These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end. -- William C. Bryant
The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion. -- John W. Gardner
Somehow during their aimless but oh-so-significant conversation with its delicious pauses and thrilling undercurrents of emotion, they came to know that they loved each other passionately." -- Betty Smith
For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design. -- Sarah Ferguson
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering -- E. O. Wilson
In place of an intensive cooperation among artists, there is a battle for goods. Hatred, partisanship, cliques, jealousy, and intrigues are the natural consequences of an aimless, materialist art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking. -- Catherynne M. Valente
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. -- Henry David Thoreau
The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life. -- Margaret Atwood
The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to. -- Dee Brown
The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return. -- John Ashbery
Idolatry, then, is always polytheism, an aimless passing from one lord to another. Idolatry does not offer a journey but rather a plethora of paths leading nowhere and forming a vast labyrinth. -- Pope Francis
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. -- Terry Southern
But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body") -- Cornell Woolrich
Sloths have low metabolisms, so they have to move slowly in order to conserve energy. However, they aren't aimless or "lazy" and they actually move around quite a lot - just very, very slowly. -- Ann Burton
Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. -- Albert C. Barnes

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