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Aim Quotes

On setting a target, whether modest or sweeping.

The aims described here range widely — a club atmosphere built around aiming high, an artistic mission to keep ideas fluid rather than settle into convention, and a Bauhaus-style goal of erasing any real gap between fine art and applied craft. Related: Best quotes.

When you first start playing, that's your aim obviously, to win the world title.

Quotes by Adrian Lewis

Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.

Quotes by Adolfo Cambiaso

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Quotes by Adam Sedgwick

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

Quotes by Adam McKay

Always Quotes

I stopped using AIM years ago - I can't remember exactly when - and so its demise shouldn't mean much to me.

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall...

Quotes by Adam Lashinsky

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Best Quotes

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Quotes by Abbott L. Lowell

I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Small aim is a crime.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be...

Quotes by Yves Behar

Good Quotes

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Quotes by Yoko Taro

The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

Quotes by Yitzhak Shamir

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

Quotes by Yasser Arafat

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

Quotes by William Tecumseh Sherman

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

Quotes by William Shenstone

Great Quotes

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Quotes by William J. Mayo

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this collection of "aim" quotes cover?
It spans a football club's ambition, the purpose of creative activity, resisting institutional rigidity, and Bauhaus art philosophy.
Does a quote mention a football club's ambition?
Yes: "There is a family atmosphere at Inter, and there are all the ingredients to aim high."
Is there a quote about the purpose of creative work?
Yes: "The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!"
Does a quote describe resisting institutional rigidity?
Yes: "My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy."
Is the Bauhaus philosophy described here?
Yes: "The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art." See the Great collection for more.

Taken together these show aim as both a practical target and a guiding philosophy — pair with Good and Great quotes for more on ambition.