Quotes about mean
meaningful believe entrepreneur
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you. Jeff Bezos
mean hard-work trying
I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family. Jeff Bridges
mean heart flames
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. Jean-Paul Sartre
mean political social
A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
mean men essence
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself. If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be.
mean self dry
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.
mean men essence
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
meaningful goes-on dare
We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. Georges Danton
mean passion past
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works. Georges Cuvier
meaningful names hatred
[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred. Georges Bernanos
mean animal emotional
The contradictions in Renan , his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetual equivocation bears witness to God in the same way as the twisting and turning of a hunted animal indicates the presence of an unseen hunter.
mean tyrants deception
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
mean creativity giving
It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms and makes creativity possible. Georges Braque
mean discovery substance
I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.
mean doctrine return
[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends. Georges Bataille
mean following-christ gestures
Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another. George Whitefield
meaningful abortion battle
The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. George Will
mean behave
Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
mean quality legislation
A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.
mean gun trying
Let's note, that in what I consider the most disgraceful performance abroad by an American official in my lifetime - something not exampled since Jane Fonda sat on the anti-aircraft gun in Hanoi to be photographed - Mr. McDermott said in effect, not in effect, he said it, we should take Saddam Hussein at his word and not take the President at his word. He said the United States is simply trying to provoke. I mean, why Saddam Hussein doesn't pay commercial time for that advertisement for his policy, I do not know.
mean sacrifice class
In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
mean citizens world
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
meaningful lost
Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing. George Sanders
mean truth-comes-out craters
Say what you mean and mean what you say. George S. Patton
mean talking hopeful
The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed... George Saunders
mean people kind
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
mean people gentle
Toni Morrison seems to have a lot of faith in people - that's what I mean by gentle power.
mean writing stories
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
mean dollars advertising
More traffic means more advertising dollars. Jeff Zucker
mean getting-older use
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically. Jeffrey Bernard
mean thinking blood
It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes. Jeffery Deaver
mean two important-relationships
France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete. Jean-Pierre Raffarin
mean silence
Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie) Jean-Luc Godard