When we discovered cubism, we did not have the aim of discovering cubism. We only wanted to express what was in us.
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
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.
Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
The military mind has one aim, and that is to make soldiers react as mechanically as possible. They want the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun, and they train their soldiers to act as a unit, not as individuals.
A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.
People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
An aim of an argument should be progress, but progress ultimately means little without victory.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
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.
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
To attain Buddhahood. . . we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position
