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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
Ann Beattie

Days, Took, Camera

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
Ellen Terry

Dream, Word, Spirit

Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
Barbara Amiel

Attention, Perhaps, Walls

There is no possible negotiation with these killers. Our aim is to win over terrorism. Only by being firm we can stop terrorism. We must be firm fighting the terrorists and opposing the final aims they want to achieve.
Jose Maria Aznar

Win, Fighting, Possible

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.
Andy Richter

Freedom, Start, Hear

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

Experience, Hell, While

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
Brad Bird

Down, Talk, Kids

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
Patricia Highsmith

Work, Days, Week

It is my aim, my destination in life to make the cello as beloved an instrument as the violin and piano.
Mstislav Rostropovich

Life, Piano, Violin

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.
Nathan Deal

Life, Human, Scientific

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Walter Reisch

Science, Live, Greatest

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Strong, Forget, Philosophy

In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Science, Mean, Philosophy

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Abbott L. Lowell

Knowledge, Wisdom, Fame

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do.
Joan Blades

Passion, Fact, Express

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Frederick William Robertson

Teacher, True, Everyone

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
Learned Hand

Eyes, Sun, Effort

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Means, Tests, Series

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

War, Justice, Effort

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
William J. Mayo

Life, Ideal, Disease

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.
Roone Arledge

Past, Real, Made

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
Clark Kerr

Confused, Whole, Balance

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

Health, Weak, Accident

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
Julius Wellhausen

Thinking, Result, Code

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

Power, Force, Seek

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

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.
Ken Follet

Words, Meaning, Notice

I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
Les Baxter

Best, Song, Possible

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.
Peter Maxwell Davies

Audience, Later, Expecting

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
William Whitehead

Best, Alone, Wisdom

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