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“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

“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

“I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.”

Thinking Acting Knowing Involved Percent Aim Invisible Enjoyed Input

Author:Felicity Jones

“My primary early interest was in marketing and my aim was to improve its theories, methods and tools. Early on I pressed companies to adopt a consumer orientation and to be in the value creation business. I didn't pay much attention to the social responsibilities of business until later. Now I am pressing companies to address the triple bottom line: people, the planet, and profits. I found that companies were too much into short term profit maximization and they needed to invest more in sustainability thinking.”

“I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.”

People Thinking Trying Laughing Aim Telling The Truth Impress Making People Laugh

Author:Tim Federle

“One analysis found that every dollar in the opening offer translates to about 50 cents more in the final agreement. So put the first offer on the table and aim high. A friend of mine says, "You should ask for the highest number you can utter without bursting out laughing." Do your research - I talk to people in my industry so I have goal in mind. Women low ball themselves, so if you think you are going way higher than you should, tell yourself that's probably what a man in your position would be asking for.”

People Thinking Men Mind Goal Laughing Aim Translate Aim High

Author:Jessica Bennett

“I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted lyrics that would connect with as many people as possible. On the second album, I took a lot more of a personal approach. I wasn't trying to make conventional, structured songs; I was really trying to get a lot of emotion and my own personal journey throughout it. I just focused more on being honest than getting the normal song structure down.”

People Thinking Writing Trying Song Emotion Journey Honest Aim Focused Being Honest Melody

Author:Emeli Sande

“The most important lesson of all: Go home. Make time for the ones you love. The easiest thing to think about living like an entrepreneur is that these skills apply to only one part of your life: your job. That's a mistake. In the same way that entrepreneurs are redefining many of the traditional rules of the workplace, they're also helping to break down one of the most stubborn boundaries of all, the one between work and family. While it's popular to say you can have either a successful career or a meaningful personal life, I'd like to suggest you can aim for both.”

Thinking Important Helping Home Mistake Break Successful Aim Entrepreneur Meaningful Boundaries Workplace Stubborn Personal Life Breaking Down Making Time Successful Career

Author:Linda Rottenberg

“My ultimate goal is to try to be real. It just so happens that I'm usually more happy than sad when I'm writing. And in general I think that life is pretty great, and it's cool to be here, so that comes through in my music. I don't have a dismal outlook, but I don't aim to make positive music. It's just what I am.”

Thinking Writing Trying Real Goal Ultimate Aim Being Real

Author:Andy Grammer

“Drawing the kind of comics that I do takes so long that to specifically address something as transitory as a political matter in it would be about as effective as composing a symphony with hopes that it would depose a despot. On top of that, I personally don't think that my version of art is the best way to deal with political issues at all, or, more specifically, the place to make a point. Not that art can't, but it's the rare art that still creates something lasting if its main aim was purely to change a particular unfair social structure.”

Thinking Kind Long Art Political Art Is Aim Unfair

Author:Chris Ware

“The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching of critical thinking to to launch direct attacks.”

Thinking Different Teaching Direct Aim Election Critical Thinking

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is 'nasty, poor, brutish and short', but today we are AWASH with time.”

Thinking Long Today Term Poor Achieve Survival Aim Long Term Longevity Short Term Hobbes

Author:Tom Butler-Bowdon

“To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.”

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Author:Richard F. Heck

“I think a master craftsman is someone who is unpretentious. He has a physical object in front of him and, while he works with a higher aim, he doesn't let his personality get in the way of his art. It's simply about the task at hand and to make it as functional and necessary to the world as he can.”

Thinking World Art Personality Aim

Author:Cass McCombs

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

“You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.”

Thinking Knows Mother Wish Happened Mom Aim Being A Mom Single Mom

Author:Charlize Theron

“Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Said Sometimes Play Funny Comedy Serious Tragedy Aim Interviews Earnest

Author:Christopher Walken

“Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinCam: a 'smart' trash bin that aims to revolutionize the recycling process.”

Thinking Might Process Groups Smart Aim Designer Germany Britain Trash Recycling

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!”

Thinking Forget Duty Terrible Aim Possession Sufficient Terrible Things Life Happiness Aim Of Life

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”

Source: Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire

“Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La... La..".... and she looked at me and said "Sabrina, does anyone realy feel good about themselves for MORE than 5 minutes?" We both laughed. I was releaved to know she felt that way becuae she seems SO graceful, calm and beautiful, which she is.. but also full of so much more. Auestions, doubts + WONDER. I think that if we can aim for just five minutes a day of complete acceptance of ourselves, we are doing very well!”

“Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.”

“Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given to him, its content is not. To remain alive, he must act, and before he can act he must know the nature and purpose of his action. He cannot obtain his food without a knowledge of food and of the way to obtain it. He cannot dig a ditch-or build a cyclotron-without a knowledge of his aim and of the means to achieve it. To remain alive, he must think”

Thinking Knows Men Way Mind Mean Body Action Life Is Purpose Given Alive Achieve Survival Tools Aim Sustenance

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.”

Thinking Law Term Clear Aim Meat Fangs Aim Of Life

Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.”

Ifs Thinking Aim Thoughts In Your Head

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”

Thinking May Doe Term Pleasure Share Prove Tests Mark Aim Beloved Unhappiness Venus Eros

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.”

Thinking Feels Should Writing Mind Firsts Energy Social Aim Internals Where You Are Politeness

Book:Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

Thinking Years Humans Mean Different Whole Facts Human Beings Alive Conversation Aim Climate Range Orthodoxy Unconsciousness

Author:George Orwell

“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.”

Source: Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.”

Thinking Needs Should Mind Real Body Time Culture Energy Citizens Constitution Aim Chiefs Permit Life Happiness Time And Energy Life Time Real Happiness

Author:Thomas More

“Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be all living, and not merely a tedious passing of time; not all doing or all feeling or all thinking - the strain would be too great - but, all living; that is to say, we should be in touch wherever we go, whatever we hear, whatever we see, with some manner of vital interest.”

Thinking Giving Should Feelings Would Be Interest Numbers Learning Aim Passing Passings Immense Strain Tedious Initiate Homeschooling Full Life

Book:School Education

Source: School Education

“My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me. But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.”

People Thinking Knows Want Life Heart Body Seems Might Happens Suffering Felt Love Is Interesting Know How Alive My Heart Terrible Aim Excited Girlfriend Touched Terrible Things My Girlfriend

Author:Paulo Coelho

“But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.”

Thinking Men Children States Politics Responsibility Study Teaching Ought Aim Affair Curriculum

Book:A New Aristotle reader

Source: A New Aristotle reader

“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.''”

Thinking Should Facts Science Fall Goal Natural Simple Aim Errors Complexes Simplicity Philosopher Explanation Quests Distrust Motto Simplest Simple And Complex

Book:The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

“At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.”

Thinking Writing May Has Beens Said Moments Spirituality Given Results Aim Statements Consistent Spiritual Awareness

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Children Littles God Family Television Health Hard Work Higher Harder Paid Aim Thanks Good Life Family And Friends Aim High Praise God Thankful For Friends

Author:Art Linkletter

“Teaching for creativity aims to encourage self-confidence, independence of mind, and the capacity to think for oneself.”

Thinking Mind Self Creativity Teaching Capacity Aim Independence Oneself Self Confidence

Book:Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

Source: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”

Thinking Men Mind Real States Philosophy Shows Happiness Evil Left Differences Doubt Greatness Empty Aim Checks No Doubt Emptiness

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.”

People Thinking World Trying Believe Action Fear Atheism Aim Rage Explanation Thoughts And Actions

Book:Man's Unconquerable Mind

Source: Man's Unconquerable Mind

“Don't think you are unstoppable or foolproof. Don't think that the only way your business will work is through perfection. Don't aim for perfection. Aim for success.”

Thinking Way Inspiration Success Perfection Aim Unstoppable Foolproof

Author:Eike Batista

“You can understand other people only as much as you understand yourself and only on the level of your own being. This means you can judge other people's knowledge but you cannot judge their being. You can see in them only as much as you have in yourself. But people always make the mistake of thinking they can judge other people's being. In reality, if they wish to meet and understand people of a higher development than themselves they must work with the aim of changing their being.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Reality Spiritual Wish Levels Mistake Judging Development Higher Aim

Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy-that's the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached-to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.”

Thinking Way Looks Persons Helping Body Culture Given Vision Pure Highest Commitment Aim Leaving Chairs Another Way Transcendence Detachment Detached Pure Love

Author:Robert Bly

“And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition, or that which it implies, is the direct negation of the term self-control. In order to save the small percentage of men who are too weak to resist their animal desires, it aims to put chains on every man, the weak and the strong alike. And if this is proper in one respect, why not in all respects? Yet, what would one think of a proposition to keep all men locked up because a certain number have a propensity to steal?”

“In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other ... and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis, I think it ought to occupy a prominent place in our investigations, and that we ought to endeavour to construct a mental representation of all the details of its action, and this has been my constant aim in this treatise.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Facts Body Action Science Energy Ought Aim Constant Details Mediums Substance Investigation Representation Constructs Hypothesis Endeavour Prominent

Author:James Clerk Maxwell

“The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem.”

Thinking Problem Individual Community Acting Highest Training Aim Physics Memorable Math And Science Math Education Science Education Aim Of Education

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I`m terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.”

People Thinking Life Streets Car Aim Accidents Terrified Crossings Crossing The Street

Author:Robert Pattinson

“But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.”

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Humans Kind Would Be Humanity Social Causes Justice Race Progress Impossible Bases Aim Human Race Selection Objectivity Undesirable

Author:Howard Zinn

“You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.”

Thinking Trying Kind Important Use Light Natural Results Materials Aspect Aim Architecture Characteristics Transparency Natural Materials Japanese Architecture

Author:Kengo Kuma

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.”

Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell

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