T Quotes
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“The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”
Source: Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
“The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.”
Source: People and Performance
“The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.”
Source: Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers
“The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.”
“The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle, but to make them long for it.”
“The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.”
“The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music.”
“The aim of my life is not to touch the sky but to test my limit.”
“The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.”
“The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.”
Source: Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.”
“The aim of New Deals is to exterminate the class of creditors and thrust all men into that of debtors. It is like trying to breedcattle with all cows and no bulls.”
“The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.”
“The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term”
“The aim of planning is to minimise, remove and cast aside all the doubts.”
“The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.”
“The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.”
Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series
“The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.”
“The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.”
“The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.”
“The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.”
“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.”
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
“The aim of Satanic power is to cut off communication with God. To accomplish this aim he deludes the soul with a sense of defeat, covers him with a thick cloud of darkness, depresses and oppresses the spirit, which in turn hinders prayer and leads to unbelief - thus destroying all power.”
“The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.”
“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”
Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo
“The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it.”
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“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.”
“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''”
Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
Source: The Concept of Nature
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.”
Source: The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, 11/1919
“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.”
“The aim of science was not meant to turn against every religious belief, but to illuminate the minds of the people.”
Source: Resistance To Intolerance
“The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.”
Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.”
“The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.”
“The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.”
“The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.”
“The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.”
Source: all the year round
“The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”
Source: Wittgenstein's Tractatus
“The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.”
“The aim of the Constitutional Treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable ... The Constitution aimed to be clear, whereas this Treaty had to be unclear. It is a success.”
“The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim—for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives—is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.”
Source: 1984
“The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.”
“The aim of the individuation process is not to overcome one's psychology, but to become familiar with it and this in itself leads to a change in attitude towards oneself, as well as others.”
Source: The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“The aim of the missionary is to do God's will, not to be useful, not to win the heathan; he is useful and does win the heathen, but that is not his aim. His aim is to do the will of his Lord.”
“The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.”