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«It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.»
«I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle»
Author: Peter Scott | About: Danger | Keywords: aiming, bogey, eagle, settling, shooting, shootings
«It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee (Historian) | Keywords: aiming, ambitious
«Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal»
«Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Politicians | Keywords: aiming
«It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.»
«I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Men, Teenage | Keywords: aiming
«Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the tracks of others or emulate the prowess of their models. So a prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it. He should behave like those archers who, if they are skilful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.»
«A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Meaning | Keywords: aiming, handful, throws
«One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | Keywords: aiming

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