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American motivational speaker 1926–2012Related quotes
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
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 book 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 book Beyond Order
Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), p. 184
U.G. Krishnamurti book Mind is a Myth
Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 4: There Is Nothing To Understand
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Dick Clark (1929–2012) American radio personality
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.
