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«Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.»
Author: Cecil B. De Mille
| About:
Dedication,
Ideals
| Keywords:
aims, by fits and starts, dedication, fits, steadily, unswervingly
«If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.»
«Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aims, anguish, compel, look on, opponents, raped, submit, unspeakable
«Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aims, converted, delivery, listener, listeners, oral, persuaded, persuasion, persuasions, The Listener
«I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Respect
| Keywords:
aims, arises, distinctly, erect, erecting, erects, foundation, hut, mischief, sufficiently, The Foundation, tower, Towered, undertaken
«Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
aims, aspirations, collective, electronic, endeavors, handicraft, handicrafts, ideally, programmed
«It is a good lesson /though it may often be a hard one /for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world's dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
achieves, aims, devoid, dignitaries, dignitary, significance
«Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.»
Author: Samuel Butler
| Keywords:
aims
«There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence»
«Had other aims than my delight.»
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