Whilst I'm aiming to improve as a driver, I'm also hoping to inspire others to strive for their own personal goals, whatever their situation in life.
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
At this level, if you are aiming for the World Cup, because the tournament is so long there will be points where the team may lose a couple of games.
It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.
I was a science student and was aiming to be an IFS officer. But, fortunately, my destiny had some other plans for me.
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people.
We should be aiming for our entire system to reflect that public transportation is a public good.
We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one.
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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.
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
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 think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.
Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.
I had a very successful 2014, but I have got to keep aiming for bigger and better things, so the world title is my goal.
Football's no different from any other workplace. If you're not doing the job you think you're capable of, it's frustrating. And I'm aiming for the stars. I'm not content with being in the shadows.
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
Everybody teaches a system. I just try to shoot where I'm aiming. I play by sight and feel not by technical thoughts.
Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort
When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.
[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family.
Tonight was not about winning, it was about focusing on myself and what I was aiming to do. It's the reason why I was able to swim so well
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.
I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
I want to act in films and TV drama, so that's where I'm aiming to be, and I'm not going to let anything distract me or turn my head until I get there.
Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.
I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.
With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount of knowledge; you can expect that there is this common background.
We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.
I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.
Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.
I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria.
I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
In 'Space Dandy,' I'm trying to challenge myself and do stuff I haven't done before. I'm aiming for a really funny, cool, and crazy creation.
One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
The day I stop aiming for the title, I will stop fighting.
Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.
Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.
I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.
Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.
I'm experimenting and pushing as far as I can. I typically don't know what I was aiming for until I see what I ended up with. Then I can study and choose.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.
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