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

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Daniel Burnham

Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
Michael Servetus

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
Frederick Scott Oliver

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton Senna

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.
Marc Morial

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.
Arthur Henderson

My aim in life is not to judge.
Jeanne Moreau

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
Hans Hofmann

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one could add nothing more to them.
Henri Laurens

My aim is to play as many games as possible and to go out and be one of the 11 players again.
Dennis Bergkamp

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to show that those governments that violate the rights of people by invoking the name of Islam have been misusing Islam.
Shirin Ebadi

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.
Hosni Mubarak

My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
Hans Frank

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.
Terry Prachett