#aim

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#avoiding #brevity #jargon #while

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. ↗

— Walt Disney

#certain #coordinating #done #efforts #goal

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ↗

— Walt Disney

#anyway #dead #grown #kids #only

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#financial #press #proclaims #regularly

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#before #claim #coming #constantly #every

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#discovery #exceptions #profundity #rules #sole