Aim Quotes - Page 39

• To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Communication, Reality

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.

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• The end and aim of all education is the development of character.

  Francis Wayland Parker

  Education, Character, Development

  Francis Wayland Parker, Lelia E. Patridge (1883). “Notes of Talks on Teaching”

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• The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Children, Women, Struggle

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• A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

  Steven Dietz

  Shopping, People, Television

  Steven Dietz, Eric Peltoniemi (1987). “Ten November”

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• It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.

  Eric Maisel

  Beauty, Jobs, Real

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

  Eric Maisel

  Composition, Built, Arrangements

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Government, Consumption, Productions

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.139

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• Difficulty is a nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness.

  Kobe Bryant

  Children, Wrestling, Greatness

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• Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Mature Person, Missing

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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• The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Fiction, Literature

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson" edited by Linda Lear, (p. 91), 1999.

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• Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Prayer, Wish, Merit

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• A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Games, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions”, p.160, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Lying, Grace, Suffering

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation
  Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.

  Archie Carr

  Determination, Marine, Turtles

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• As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Ignorance, Bias And Prejudice

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.830, Best Books on

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• Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dream, Men, Doe

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.97, Delphi Classics

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• Christ did not come to civilize. He came to save. Civilization is not the solution; it does not destroy the works of the devil. All civilization aims at world improvement, at the gradual elimination of the curse; it is a process of evolution. It is like a man who is suffering from a terrible disease, and the physician who comes to help him gives him a salve to apply. He treats the skin symptoms but the source of the disease he never considers and never touches. Such is a boasted and progressive civilization. It is a delusion.

  Arno C. Gaebelein

  Christian, Men, Civilization

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• The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

  Stella Adler

  Achievement, Training, Actors

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• In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Sports, Running

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• I get so sick of people asking: "What's your demographic?" Or: "Oh we've got to aim this at..." No, you have to aim it at you. You do the thing you would love... make the thing you would love and be proud of. There's enough people in the world that, if you do that and do it well as a single vision, they'll go: "That's my favourite thing ever!"

  Ricky Gervais

  Sick, People, Vision

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Truthful

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• It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider things.

  Peter London

  Art, Discovery, Tasks

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• My aim is to create the perfect dress!

  Victoria Beckham

  Perfect, Dresses

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• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

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