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 | "Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and
America: Don"t aim at success ? the more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness,
cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended
side effect of one"s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself
or as the by-product of one"s surrender to a person other than oneself.
Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it
happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your
conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of
your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run ? in the
long-run, I say! ? success will follow you precisely because you had
forgotten to think about it." | |
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Viktor E. Frankl
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| "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly
far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." | |
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J. Hawes
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| "Aim for the stars and maybe you"ll reach the sky." | |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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| "AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Before shooting, one must aim." | |
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Proverb
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| "Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low
aim succeed, ? As, God be thanked! I do not." | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Greatly begin! Though thou have time But for a line, be that
sublime- Not failure, but low aim is crime." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star." | |
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PhineasTaylor Barnum
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| "In great attempts it is glorious even to fail." | |
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Vincent Lombardi
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| "In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though
you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "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." | |
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Arnold Toynbee
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| "It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at
imperfection and hit it" | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or
methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.
. . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The
aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment." | |
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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| "It is necessary to try to surpass one"s self always; this occupation
ought to last as long as life." | |
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Queen Christina
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| "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish." | |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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| "Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men"s blood and
will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work,
remembering that a noble and logical plan never dies, but long after we
are gone will be a living thing." | |
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Lita Bane
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| "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men"s blood ? and
probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in
hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded
will not die." | |
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Daniel Hudson Burnham
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| "Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim." | |
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Emma Goldman
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| "Not failure, but low aim, is a crime." | |
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Ernest Holmes
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| "Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the
exercise." | |
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Edmund Vance Cooke
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| "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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