„If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.“
Zig Ziglar4
scrittore statunitense 1926 - 2012Citazioni simili
„Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.“
— W. Clement Stone American New Thought author 1902 - 2002
As quoted in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 199
also attributed to Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and Les Brown (1912–2001)
Misattributed
— Jerome David Salinger, libro Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
He was speaking, communicating, and yet not breaking the spell. I then broke it. Quite deliberately. "How can it be luck if I aim?" I said back to him, not loud (despite the italics) but with rather more irritation in my voice than I was actually feeling. He didn't say anything for a moment but simply stood balanced on the curb, looking at me, I knew imperfectly, with love. "Because it will be," he said. "You'll be glad if you hit his marble — Ira's marble — won't you? Won't you be glad? And if you're glad when you hit somebody's marble, then you sort of secretly didn't expect too much to do it. So there'd have to be some luck in it, there'd have to be slightly quite a lot of accident in it."
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
„If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.“
— Jordan Peterson, libro Beyond Order
Origine: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 184
— Art Buchwald journalist, humorist, United States Marine 1925 - 2007
Have I Ever Lied to You? (1968).
— U.G. Krishnamurti, libro Mind is a Myth
Origine: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand
— Jon Stewart American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian 1962
— Dick Clark American radio personality 1929 - 2012
Responding to payola charges, Pop Chronicles, Show 12 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19761/m1/, interview recorded 3.11.1968 http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews.
„… you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down.“
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
Origine: Proven Guilty
„We aim above the mark to hit the mark.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
— Kurt Vonnegut, libro Deadeye Dick
Describing an accident in which the narrator, as a child, accidentally shot a woman
Deadeye Dick (1982)
— Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957
Holi Festival, Miami, Florida, on Sunday, April 1978, printed in Divine Times April/May 1978 Volume 7, Number 3
1970s
„In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.“
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden ovvero Vita nei boschi
Origine: Walden
„I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.“
— Upton Sinclair American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist 1878 - 1968
Sinclair on The Jungle in Cosmopolitan, October 1906
„The surest way to hit a woman’s heart is to take aim kneeling.“
— Douglas William Jerrold English dramatist and writer 1803 - 1857
Douglas Jerrold's Wit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
