“Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack of an agenda is the greatest power. Sometimes it is better not to think in terms of plans; here months may mean nothing, and also years. Truth must be sought for its own sake, its holy, divine greatness.” ThinkingYearsMayMeanSometimesTermPlansEffectsGreatnessDivineMonthsHolyTruth IsAimSakeAgendasHaving Patience Author:Romano Guardini
“My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveIdeasI BelieveAchievePaintingBecomingActivityBenefitsConcernedPhilosophicalAimCommunicateListen To MeAchieving SuccessBecoming Famous Author:Antoni Tapies
“My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.” ThinkingHas BeensArtPhotographyAimMediumsTruthful Author:Mathew Brady
“There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsLooksChildrenLongDoneSchoolPastSpiritualMoralSupportGreaterInfluenceCenturyMovementDemandDeserveTasksImportanceOur ChildrenAimSpreadDecadesPreparationContributionTwentieth CenturyOver The PastCultivationOminousExemplaryMethodical Author:Bruno Walter
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished” ThinkingShouldSchoolActingMastersAimFree WillDestroyingIncapablePupilsSchooledScience And Society Author:Johann Gottlieb Fichte
“I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes discovered or remarked upon is valuable for me because it makes it easier to accept the inexplicable nature of my hobbies, which constantly preoccupy me.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesDoneFactsAcceptingParticularEasierAimValuableSymbolsHobbiesInexplicable Author:M. C. Escher
“The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.” IfsThinkingRealFeelingsWould BeLife IsPurposeWatchesTelevisionDrinkMessagesAnd LoveAimWestSuperiorsReasonableDivinityPurpose Of LifeEntityWholenessEarningConsumingLove And RespectAim Of Life Author:Bernard d'Espagnat
“My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWorldWantTryingWellsChildrenBookCountryShowsUsedThreeBornKnownWifeWrittenPolicyYouthProtectAimBlameFaultsBordersDesignerEducateI Want YouWell KnownOld PeopleArmamentMotherlandShow RespectKalashnikov Author:Mikhail Kalashnikov
“Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.” ThinkingWorldBookHelpingProblemPowerfulPracticeWrittenPolicyStudentsSolutionsResourcesProgramAimResilienceListsScalesContemporaryManagersOfficialsThoughtfulUrgesOur WorldScholarSustainabilityUsersSaltVolumeMultipleProposalAntidotePublic PolicyBrianWalkersPublic Officials Author:Elinor Ostrom
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.” IfsThinkingLifeRealSeemsMovingDiscoveryAimCosmicDevotedEstatesDescendingAscending Author:Margaret Caroline Anderson
“I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you.” ThinkingFeelsLongLyingWaitingBlackStruggleGrowingBedLateAimBlueCaughtLegsUpsetWearyDaddyConsumedLong LegsGrowing Weary Author:Fiona Apple
“Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.” IfsThinkingBigsCertainGrowthCompanyFiveFourSixSightBiggerAimOilBadnessRegulatorsLawmakersBig Oil Author:Andrew Hill