Aim Quotes - Page 40

• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Way

  Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Fighting, Oppression, Achieve

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• We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

  Vladimir Lenin

  People, Systematic, Violence

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.333, Courier Corporation

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• The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.

  Walter Reisch

  Penetrate, Ultimate

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• If sophistication is a matter of being in control of our primary reactions, we may now be sophisticated. At least we shall be fairly confident of ourselves and may, with any luck, be confident of others. Our object will be to enjoy our selves. But to make sure that our names are permanently on the cast list, it will be advisable to be of interest to others. This aim must never be confused with the desire to be popular.

  Quentin Crisp

  Confused, Self, Names

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• There are sermons in stones, but it depends on how good your aim is.

  Albert Meltzer

  Stones, Sermons, Depends

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• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

  Mary Howitt

  Children, Father, Heart

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• God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

  Criss Jami

  Lying, Men, Giving

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.42, Criss Jami

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• Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Important, Might

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Progress, Petty

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• The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Criticism, Attention, Excellent

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• Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Noble, Rich

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.14

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• In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Divorce, Enthusiasm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures ...”, p.263

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• Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Men, Years, Community

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• He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Justice, Perfection

  "Characters: Of Works of the Mind," #67, 1688.

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• If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Devil, Firsts

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

  James Anthony Froude

  Simple, Stories, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.3

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• My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.

  Julie Klausner

  Song, Writing, Sleep

  "I Don't Care about Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Faux Sensitive Hipsters, Felons, and Other Guys I've Dated". Book by Julie Klausner, Febкгфкн 02, 2010.

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• The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Ambitious, Desire

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIX, 1840.

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• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  Karl Marx

  Ends, Motive, Surplus

  Karl Marx (2012). “Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy”, p.178, Regnery Publishing

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• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Doubt

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.

  James Madison

  Taken, Roots, Public Opinion

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• For every wacky postcard, there's a million people waiting to buy it, and for every $10 million of those things, there's one Rembrandt. Purposely, I think I want to aim at doing something that a lot of people won't like. I'm just worried that it looks like I've compared my work with Rembrandt. "Gervais says he's better than Rembrandt!".

  Ricky Gervais

  Thinking, People, Waiting

  Interview with Scott Gordon, tv.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

  Lana Del Rey

  Song, Eras, Lifestyle

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2011.

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• I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

  Gae Aulenti

  Space, Design, Skylines

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