Target Quotes - Page 22

• Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Successful, Satire, Holes

  Wyndham Lewis (1979). “Wyndham Lewis: collected poems and plays”

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• Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Giving, Important

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 168), 1986.

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• My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.

  Akio Morita

  Creativity, United States, Example

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 164), 1986.

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• This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Men, America

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• Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

  Bruce Schneier

  People, Machines

  "Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks". Cryptogram Newsletter, www.schneier.com. October 15, 2000.

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• I was shocked when they told me congratulations, you won, that's the good news. Then the bad news is that you have six battles next week. That was a bit of a shocker. I was exhausted. And I had Chopped shooting that same week. I didn't have a sous chef lined up; I thought that was bad karma to try to think ahead. So I scrambled. I scrambled the jets, took off and we bombed our target. I think it's gone well.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Karma, Congratulations, Thinking

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• History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.

  Neal Ascherson

  Glasses, Hands, Years

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• Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Used, Periods, Timetables

  "PBS NewsHour", October 26, 2006.

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• Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.

  Calvin Ayre

  Exercise, Player, Air

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• Our target market is recreational bettors, but that doesn't mean we expel the wise guys. A big bet for us is maybe $10,000.

  Calvin Ayre

  Wise, Mean, Guy

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• The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it a lot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you... I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.

  Brandon DiCamillo

  Lying, House, Important

  "Landspeed: CKY". Comedy, 1999.

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• We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Battle, Defense, Members

  Public radio, March 23, 2004.

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• They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Aquarius, Waiting

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, America, Bonus

  "The Army Is on the Edge". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. August 2, 2013.

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• With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Commitment, Years, Kyoto Protocol

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  Rahman Baba

  Flower, Arrows, May

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• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• ...like a predator about to devour the target.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Predator, Commentators

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• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holiday

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• I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

  Mike Tyson

  Blessed, Thinking, Speed

  Inerview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

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• 3 years ago I was stocking shelves at Target, living on Ramen noodles, and crashing at Billy's house. Now I'm on tour

  Benji Madden

  Years, House, Noodles

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• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

  Vance Havner

  Jesus, Men, Giving

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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