Quotes about mean
mean talking vision
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures. Flannery O'Connor
mean use lord
We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.
mean church doe
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
mean years democracy
Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. Fiona Shaw
mean people house
You want the people to know, but you don't really want the things behind it. I have everything I ever wanted. I never wanted a big house. I never wanted a Ferrari. I mean, as I proceeded with the music, I started liking Ferraris ... Fetty Wap
mean sleep squad
I just want everybody to know my music and get to know my squad, Remy Boyz; just to show people New Jersey. New Jersey got talent, too. I mean, everybody sleeps on us, and they put us as the underdog.
mean ideas important
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues! Fidel Castro
mean thinking years
I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually! Fiona Apple
mean be-kind machines
Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
mean stills knows
I still don't know what Episcopalian means
mean machines way
If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine
mean data scary
The approach we try to take here [Morris's Institute for Creation Research] is to assume that the word of God is the word of God and that God is able to say what He means and means what He says, and that's in the Bible and that is our basis. And then we interpret the scientific data within that framework. Henry M. Morris
mean details bigs
Everyone is against micro managing but macro managing means you're working at the big picture but don't know the details. Henry Mintzberg
mean fighting organization
Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.
mean emotional interpretation
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. Henry Moore
mean black grandfather
You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? Henry Louis Gates
mean thinking dna
If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.
mean black-and-white diversity
Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
mean skins comfortable
That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.
mean boredom stuff
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life. Henry Miller
mean passion fire
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
mean two society
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
mean perception perceive
To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself. Henri Bergson
mean views essence
It is the very essence of intelligence to coordinate means with a view to a remote end, and to undertake what it does not feel absolutely sure of carrying out.
mean expression simplicity
It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression. Henri Cartier-Bresson
mean self order
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. Henri Frederic Amiel
mean justice guilt
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
mean diversity guilt
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.
mean desire liberty
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
mean law justice
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and utility-can only be rightly shaped by wisdom, which is by no means a universal property.
meaningful spiritual strong
Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord. Helen Keller
mean men thorough-knowledge
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
meaningful dream eye
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream