Aim Quotes - Page 38

• The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

  Wilfrid

  Philosophy, Together, Term

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• After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

  James Prescott Joule

  Next, Obedience, Goodness

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• I do not play chess – I fight at chess. Therefore, I willingly combine the tactical with the strategic, the fantastic with the scientific, the combinative with the positional, and I aim to respond to the demands of each given position.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Fighting, Play, Style

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• We have a great objective - the light on the hill - which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

  Ben Chifley

  Fighting, Light, Hands

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• The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Running, Real, Taken

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.146, Crown Business

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• If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Struggle, Men, Fire

  "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.

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• But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

  Sallust

  War, Men, Honorable Man

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• To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

  Francois Quesnay

  Effort, Economic, Pleasure

  "Economics, Modern Business". Book by J. D. Vassie, ‎Paul Chadburn, p. 137, 1935.

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• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Working Together, Trying, Improvement

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• For the average audience, the credits tell them there's only
  three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren't interested in.
  I aim to set up the audience for what's coming;
  make them expectant.

  Saul Bass

  Average, Names, Trying

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• Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

  Ian Holloway

  Stars, Moon, Sometimes

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• An efficient bartenders first aim should be to please his customers, paying particular attention to meet the individual wishes of those whose tastes and desires he has already watched and ascertained; and, with those whose peculiarities he has had no opportunity of learning, he should politely inquire how they wish their beverages served, and use his best judgment in endeavoring to fulfill their desires to their entire satisfaction. In this way he will not fail to acquire popularity and success.

  Jerry Thomas

  Success, Opportunity, Alcohol

  Jerry Thomas (2016). “Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide: How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks”, p.13, Courier Dover Publications

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• With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.

  Steve Paxton

  Dark, Self, Mind

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• My aim is to communicate with the last man in the audience. Art minus communication is meaningless. The term 'abhinaya' is not just facial expressions. It means drawing the spectator to an idea. Look at the modern advertisements. It's contemporary abhinaya. But one who creates should know what has to be completely and what has to be suggestively portrayed. That is ethical aesthetics. The Natyasastra says a production must be such that a family should be able to watch it together.

  Padma Subrahmanyam

  Art, Communication, Mean

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• The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.

  Bernard d'Espagnat

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

  Clark Kerr

  Confused, Balance, Sake

  Clark Kerr (2001). “The Uses of the University”, p.14, Harvard University Press

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• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]

  Hermann Weyl

  Years, Achievement, Greek

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• Persevere in thy quest and thou shalt find what thou seekest. Pursue thy aim unswervingly and thou shalt gain victory. Struggle earnestly and thou shalt triumph.

  Gautama Buddha

  Leadership, Courage, Struggle

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• The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Aim Of Education, Individual, Architect

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• One opinion I share with the Dadaists is that art-making presupposes a revolutionary state of mind. Assimilating the practice into commodity or symbol of status nullifies its fundamental aims; therefore at the center of my own adherence to to this ranginess in taste is that it doesn't add up to membership in a private club. The differences choose me. There are so many approaches, so many innovative moves, so many oddly shaped ears in the field; may they never sing in unison.

  C.D. Wright

  Art, Moving, Practice

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• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Years, Elephants

  "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America". Book by David Stockman, 2013.

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• The aim is to illuminate and reveal the alluring world.

  Enos Mills

  World, Alluring

  Enos Abijah Mills (1920). “The Adventures of a Nature Guide”

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• My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Mean, Looks, Littles

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• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? … As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!'… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.

  Shawn Phillips

  Dream, Impact, Anchors

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• As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.

  Alexander Borodin

  People, Relaxation, Musical

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