#aiming

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#burned #defended #full #history #ideas

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#careful #even #fully #heart #lips

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#claiming #does #got #intolerance #truth

Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#another #any #before #camera #could

Live in the moment. Day by day! Tomorrow isnt promised so if you thought about it...even just for a second...DO IT! ↗

— B.M. Hardin

#inspirational

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ↗

— Aristotle

#aiming #also #always #because #beyond

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough. ↗

— Alan Kay

#enough #fail #high #high enough #least

Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult. ↗

— Jay Kay

#along #anybody #being #being there #bother

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. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#ambitious #beyond #goal #important #itself