#aim

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#fly #out #philosophy #show #way

I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#i #know #lost #lost love #love

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#claim #heuristic #hypothesis #materialistic #only

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. ↗

— John Yoo

#bush #claim #conventions #decision #deny

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #any #art #artist #authentic

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#because #block #building #building block #claim

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bitterness #climb #enthusiasm #floor #fulfill

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #chief #everyone #formation #ought