“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”
Les Brown (1945) American politician
Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors — and miss.”
Source: Time Enough for Love (1973)
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“There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist—the taxidermist leaves the hide.”
Mortimer Caplin (1916–2019) Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attorney; benefactor:University of Virginia
Quoted in Time magazine article Taxes: Enter Balance Due Here http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829745,00.html, 1 February 1963 http://books.google.com/books?id=YufVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+one+difference+between+a+tax+collector+and+a+taxidermist+the+taxidermist+leaves+the+hide%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician
Quoted in "Fact file: What Tony Abbott promised on tax" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-01/fact-file-what-tony-abbott-promised-on-tax/5420226 ABC News, July 23, 2014. <br class="br">2011
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
Lawrence Klein (1920–2013) American economist
"Keynsianism Again: Interview with Lawrence Klein", Challenge (May-June 2001)
“Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won’t shoot your foot off.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
Source: Miles in Love
“Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis