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“Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.”

Men Life Reality Existence Special Talent Higher Aim Humble Inevitable Midst Aptitude

Book:The Blue Bird ; And, The Betrothal

Source: The Blue Bird ; And, The Betrothal

“The sole aim of the arts of scene-designing, costuming, lighting, is to enhance the natural powers of the actor.”

Art Actors Natural Design Scene Aim Theatre Sole Lighting

Book:The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre

Source: The Dramatic Imagination: Reflections and Speculations on the Art of the Theatre

“Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.”

Motivation Effort Aim Seeking Oppression Vitality Fruition

Author:Brendon Burchard

“Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.”

Motivational Life Is Journey Adults Aim Destination Waking

Author:Darren Hardy

“The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.”

“Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.”

Running Stuff White Scientist Aim Experiments Statistics Coats Psychologist White Coat

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.”

Humans Law Found Games Sports Performances Aim Medicine Artistic Features Target Divides Hunting Domain Competence Arrows Distinctive Corresponding Archery

Author:Ernest Sosa

“In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess.”

Order Lucky Judgment Aim Affirmation Competence

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.”

Ifs Turns Given Memories Risk Subjects Judgment Perception Aim Operations Etc Affirmation Competence Competent Assessment Inference

Author:Ernest Sosa

“If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?”

Ifs Ends Would Be Risk Succeed Elements Aim Agents Relevant Attempting Assessment Distinctive Ifs And

Author:Ernest Sosa

“Revolutionary realism tries to draw the maximum advantage from every situation - that is what makes it revolutionary - but at the same time it does not permit us to set ourselves fantastic aims - that is what makes it realistic.”

Trying Doe Situation Draws Advantage Aim Fantastic Revolutionary Realistic Permit Realism Maximum

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.”

Mean Ends Action Simple Theory Aim

Author:Allen W. Wood

“One rational standard of action is how well it promotes the end it seeks. Another standard is whether it aims at ends which are good. Both of these, but especially the former, depend on judgments of fact.”

Wells Ends Facts Action Depends Judgment Standards Aim Rational Former

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.”

Ifs Reason Asks Christianity Special Aim Mere Boundaries Revelations Extensions Optional Lutherans

Author:Allen W. Wood

“We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or the disastrous failures of those who later thought they were acting in his name.”

Ifs Trying Names Acting Aim Contribution Anticipation Modest

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be introductory stuff. That way, you will always aim towards understanding things at a resolution fine enough for you to be creative.”

Thinking Way Ideas Enough Reading Stuff Understanding Creative Fine Models Aim Resolution New Ideas Be Creative Understanding Things

Author:Edward Boyden

“For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.”

People Different Light Lasts Turns Technology Century Drug Aim Cells Precise Neuroscience Pulse Electrical Neurons Pharmacology

Author:Edward Boyden

“In a corporate context, companies have to try very hard to oppose the enticements of conventional wisdom. They must aim for the leaps, which means that companies have to do more than simply manage their knowledge, which is composed of the insights and understandings they already know. They also have to manage the knowledge-generation process. It's not just about, "Oh, we're going to create a data warehouse and we are going to invent a computerized filing system to get at all the stuff we know."”

Knows Trying Mean Hard Stuff Process Understanding Company Generations Aim Insight Manage Data Corporate Leap Conventional Conventional Wisdom Filing Warehouse Enticement

Author:John Kao

“It's literally just been formed. It's a 501 C3, non-profit charitable foundation called, unsurprisingly, the Khalled Hosseini Foundation. The aim is to help refugees and aim vulnerable women and children.”

Children Helping Aim Foundation Profit Vulnerable Refugee Charitable Non Profit Charitable Foundations

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.”

Needs Jobs Technology Demand Percent Areas Aim Green Plant Urgent Manufacturing New Technology Aim High

Author:Van Jones

“It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema.Timothy Treadwell's footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star in his own gigantic production.”

Passion Stars Figures Becoming Aim Productions Cinema Movie Star Diaries

Author:Werner Herzog

“You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!”

Hard Knowing Aim Focused

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Our aim in the film ['Resilience'] is to make people understand that resilience is something you can create, build or develop, rather than just having as an inherent gift organically or thinking you are a special person. That's really important.”

People Thinking Persons Important Film Special Aim Resilience Inherent

Author:James Redford

“For [Karl] Marx what counts is man. He is the root of everything;while for capitalism, the aim are things, profit, and man is only a means to gain them. As an authentically religious individual, Marx could not be other than against "religion".”

Men Mean Individual Religious Capitalism Gains Roots Aim Profit Against Religion

Author:Erich Fromm

“I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.”

Thinking Seeing Capable Aim Blind Track Following Pursuit Alleys

Author:Erich Fromm

“I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital.”

Mean Whole Use Individual Social Citizens Organization Aim Profit Productions Socialism Employed Social Organization

Author:Erich Fromm

“You must always aim for further growth.”

Growth Aim

Author:Niki Lauda

“A comprehensive doctrine, either religious or secular, aspires to cover all of life. I mean, if it's a religious doctrine, it talks about our relation to God and the universe; it has an ordering of all the virtues, not only political virtues but moral virtues as well, including the virtues of private life, and the rest. Now we may feel philosophically that it doesn't really cover everything, but it aims to cover everything, and a secular doctrine does also.”

Ifs Feels Wells May Mean Doe Political Universe Religious Moral Virtue Relation Aim Including Doctrine Secular Aspire Private Life Comprehensive Moral Virtues

Author:John Rawls

“My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.”

People World Song Aim Relate

Author:Junaid Jamshed

“Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them.”

Thinking Wells Has Beens Lovers Died Aim Unions Saving Primaries Abraham

Author:Malcolm X

“[AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication.”

Should Term Aim Decades Aids Emergencies Short Term Smallpox

Author:Bill Gates

“It is clear that whatever language of democracy [Barack] Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.”

Use Language Interest Democracy Clear Aim Administration Barack Extensions

Author:Judith Butler

“A reporter shoots first, aims later.”

Firsts Aim Reporters

Author:Reince Priebus

“I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that I did the research for that book, I was very young. My aim was to understand the notion of 'Total War'.”

Book War Young Research Aim Notion Architecture Total War Bunkers Archeology

Author:Paul Virilio

“In this way, it seems to me that, since 1984, my book on the logistics of perception has been proved totally correct. For instance, almost every conflict since then has involved the logistics of perception, including the war in Lebanon, where Israel made use of cheap drones in order to track Yasser Arafat with the aim of killing him.”

Way Has Beens Made Book War Use Seems Order Involved Conflict Perception Aim Killing Including Track Israel Instance Drones Lebanon Logistics Arafat

Author:Paul Virilio

“The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.”

Giving Courses Reading Vision Cases Development Research Machines Aim Maps Target Continuing Linked Missiles Cruise Radar Drones Moscow Deployment Leningrad

Author:Paul Virilio

“We shouldn't forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally - that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone's throw from Abkhazia - that is, in de jure Georgia.”

Done Problem Moving Games Forget Cases Security Conflict Stones Hot Aim Winter Terror Absence Spots Olympics Site Bothered Putin Georgia Olympic Games Terror Attacks Winter Olympics Sochi

Author:Garry Kasparov

“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”

Art Age Modern Expression Aim Contemporary Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves.”

Mean Matter Today Culture Interest Subjects Aim Technique Painter Chinese Renaissance Subject Matter

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open trade they would be required to implement immediately labour and environmental standards of a comparable level to those applied in industrialised countries. At the same time, debates about the primacy of trade as against human rights legal codes have contributed to maintaining the unfortunate impression that the two bodies of law are pursuing incompatible aims.”

“My grandmother was extremely smart when it came to money, but she also worried a lot about not having enough. So it's with her in mind that I aim to explain complicated financial things so the folks like her won't be afraid to make certain money moves.”

Mind Enough Moving Certain Smart Aim Financial Folks Complicated Worried Grandmother My Grandmother Like Her

Author:Michelle Singletary

“Certainly, if you can't manage your game, you can't play tournament golf. You continually have to ask yourself what club to play, where to aim it, whether to accept a safe par or to try to go for a birdie. You can't play every hole the same way. I never could.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Asks Games Accepting Safe Aim Golf Clubs Holes Manage Tournaments

Author:Ben Hogan

“I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.”

Literature Aim Lowest Popular Literature

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim for, the bigger you're going to be. Set the standards for yourself as high as you possibly can and also surround yourself with people who have the same visions you have.”

People Thinking Bigs Vision Advice Standards Bigger Aim Surround Surround Yourself Think Big Best Advice Bros Surround Yourself With People

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“If you aim to be big, you will be big. And that's not a pun about my size.”

Ifs Bigs Aim Size Pun

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.”

Believe Long Bigs Games I Believe Can Do Focus Plans Jokes Aim Size Following Dreamer Follow Through Game Plan

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.”

Giving Aim Going Out

Author:George Harrison

“My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.”

Country States Poor Aim Welfare

Author:Narendra Modi

“How can those who possess all knowledge, which must include knowledge of life that is worth living, be interested in using knowledge only for the insignificant aim of making money?”

Aim Making Money Insignificant Worth Living

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past childhood as can be.”

Should Children Long Play Past Form Natural Childhood Behavior Aim Educate Honored Natural Forms

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

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