Quotes about mean
mean systematic
Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge. John Dewey
mean helping
Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.
mean ingredients study
Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the only ultimate value which can be set up is just the process of living itself. And this is not an end to which studies and activities are subordinate means; it is the whole of which they are ingredients.
mean opportunity political
What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By what means shall its inchoate and amorphous estate be organized into effective political action relevant to present social needs and opportunities? What has happened to the public in the century and a half since the theory of political democracy was urged with such assurance and hope?
mean environment life-means
Continuity of life means continual readaptation of the environment to the needs of living organisms.
mean school office
The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.
mean
Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.
mean doe belief
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
mean intelligent thinking
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.
mean use needs
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need. John Cale
mean want minimalist
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
mean poverty
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means. John Calipari
mean thinking goal
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own. John Carroll
meaningful cutting economic-models
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ... have failed to incorporate any meaningful index of individual benefit other than the original utilitarian one, ... the index of increasing income or an increasing flow of commodities.
mean passion expression
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.
mean thinking views
It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory. John Calvin
mean humility passion
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
mean men determined
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
mean guilt innocence
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
mean repentance distinguished
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
mean two golden
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
mean wish ifs
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
mean insanity christ
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
mean men names
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
mean suffering sin
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
mean men people
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
mean sheep two
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
mean fate persistence
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. John Bates Clark
mean bored resources
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources. John Berryman
mean opportunity challenges
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint. John Berger
mean cutting past
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
mean thinking forget-everything
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.
mean artist perfection
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.