Target Quotes - Page 15

• Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

  Eileen Claussen

  Nations, Binding, Emissions

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• It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

  Eileen Claussen

  Kyoto Protocol, Becoming, United States

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• Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.

  Leon Tec

  Opportunity, Thinking, Accomplishment

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• Marketers can target Sponsored Updates to any segment of our premium audience based on professional profile data across more than 225 million members.

  David Hahn

  Data, Updates, Profile

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• Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.

  Rene Crevel

  Journey, Appreciate, Lines

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• I was talking to one of the writers about our target audience, and he was insulted that I used that term. But if you're given $60 million to make a film, you'd better know who your target audience is. That's who's going to pay back the bills you run up.

  Michael Bay

  Running, Talking, Target Audience

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• In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Thinking, Brain

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• Not long ago it was easy to tell who the bad guys were. They carried Kalashnikovs. Now it is much more complicated, but one thing is sure - any man who covers his face and packs a gun is a legitimate target for any decent citizen.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Men, Long Ago

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• I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Insecure, Realizing

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• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  C. Everett Koop

  Mean, Target Audience, Ordinary

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• World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.  Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.

  Matthew Syed

  Class, World, Vivid

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• The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Self

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• With a click of the Post Comment button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.

  Willow Bay

  Kids, Bully, Political

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• When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

  Sam Kinison

  Men, Comedy, Kind

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• It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war.

  Robin Olds

  War, Fighting, Mustache

  Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus, Robin Olds (2010). “Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds”, p.284, Macmillan

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• The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the program's target. But the only sure way to prove this relevance is to have, in fact, already proved it.

  June Goodfield

  Dark, Awards, Age

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• The community does not fight crime well by chasing it; after-the-fact, crime has won and the target of violence is injured or worse. Crime is fought best not by chasing it, but by facing it before it can become a completed act.
  
  Crime is fought best at the scene of the violence.

  John Longenecker

  Fighting, Community, Doe

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• He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall
  have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
  target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
  end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
  lungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind
  freely, or the blank verse shall halt fort.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Humorous, Men

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere: Comedies / ... Shakspere”, p.122

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• Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control.

  Joost Meerloo

  Successful, Target Audience, Mind

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• There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Israel, Iran, Agony

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• There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Numbers, Israel, Names

  "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.

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• I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

  Roger Taylor

  Hiking, Midwest, England

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• Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Sports

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• If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience.

  Kurt Loder

  Senior, Target Audience, Issues

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• It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Lying, Past, Islands

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