I always go back to old vinyl albums I loved, and that’s sort of the aim I had with ‘Hero’ – just to make it look classic and feel like me, but also timeless in a way.
The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily.
But in football my main aim was to become a pro. I became one and played in the first division. But then I reached the Premier League and before I knew it I was in the England squad.
The real aim of social and industrial organization ought to be the production of strong, healthy men and women, capable of playing and working with the least pain and the greatest joy.
My government’s first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
The aim every season is to challenge for the top four and try to win a trophy.
It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
If you play a match, then you got to give it all to beat the opponent; there is nothing like playing against a great or a non-great player. I treat them all as opponents and aim to beat them.
I think it’s important for every individual to have a vision, to have an aim. If you don’t have an aim, you don’t think; if you don’t think, you can’t achieve.
I personally haven’t heard anything, but WWE haven’t exactly been quiet about the fact that their aim is to do a full time UK brand show. They have been quite open about that from the start.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.
I only aim for fashion that’s long dead.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
The Trump family’s business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, ‘No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies’.
As a young boy I dreamed of playing in the national team and representing my country with pride. I’m proud to have achieved that aim and to don my nation’s colours.
I tell my team you have to aim for success, but assume failure.
Every year, Juventus manage to build up a very competitive group of players with the aim of keep winning.
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
To play for Liverpool is the dream, the aim, and I can’t see it changing to be fair.
My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want to do in life. Do I want to get to 50 years old and come back? Or will I just want to go home and be fishing, hunting and working around the house?
China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.
Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
There’s a sports saying, if you aren’t playing offense, you’re playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better but you have to aim higher and bring something else back in to the mix.
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
I always aim to understand how much humanity is contained in each human being and how I can protect this humanity in a person.
Whether you aim to lose 20 pounds or you want to launch your own business, mental strength is the key to long-term success. After all, you need fierce determination and tenacity to reach your greatest potential.
It’s amazing to get one Olympic gold, but you have to be a legend to get two. And that’s definitely my aim.
Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.
I aim to be translucent, so you don’t notice the words, just their meaning. I haven’t much insight into people’s motivations.
It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events.
Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.
I have always believed in my batting abilities. I have always put my hand up as a pure batsman and have enjoyed fielding as well. My ultimate aim is to play all formats as a batsman. I have done it before.
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.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker’s point of view, the aim is the same.
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art – the great structure – in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
We don’t aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
My main aim in ‘Gandhi’ was to project him as the vanguard of non-violence. Nowhere in the world has a movement of non-cooperation sans violence received so much support from masses as Gandhi’s movement in India did. He was, to a great extent, responsible for freeing his nation from the British Raj.
A better goals-to-game ratio is the aim for me now. If you score goals, you will get people talking about you.
My aim is for every song to have a purpose – for you to be able to say, ‘This song is about this.’ But love and heartbreak are some of the most abstract subjects.
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples’ ideas of who you are or what you can do, that’s my biggest aim.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I’m driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing – once you’ve achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
Our aim is always to minimise casualties and to separate a hardline Taliban from those who have been caught up in the insurgency.
I stopped using AIM years ago – I can’t remember exactly when – and so its demise shouldn’t mean much to me.
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy.
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
