Quotes about mean
mean men finding-happiness
Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom. Democritus
mean sides grows
Everybody’s got a mean side. Just don’t feed it till it grows. Denis Johnson
mean numbers would-be
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare. Denis Diderot
mean power order
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
mean writing littles
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me. Deborah Smith
mean people littles
Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations. Deborah Tannen
mean ideas people
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.
mean cooperation conflict
Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.
mean laughing people
I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense. Debra Winger
mean phones cells
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. Dee Dee Myers
meaningful powerful thinking
We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter. Debra Messing
mean thinking two
Oh my God the fantasies are my favorite thing that we do each episode by far. And the great thing now is that instead of one an episode sometimes we do as many as two. We did one in each of the mini-series. And so far - I mean I keep thinking I can't have another favorite and then they keep topping it.
meaningful powerful school
So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.
mean two world
Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something. Dean Rusk
mean errors mirrors
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal. Dean Young
mean had-enough too-much
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
mean use spirituality
When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself. Dean Ornish
mean design littles
Good design means as little design as possible. Dieter Rams
meaningful memorable design
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
mean ideas done
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
mean thinking grieving
Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.
mean responsibility political
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
mean thinking suffering
I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.
mean men church
The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.
mean moon civilization
Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in is probably going to need the resources off our planet, perhaps the resources from the asteroids, perhaps there will be some on the moon, perhaps some on Mars that we can utilize for our own uses here. Edgar Mitchell
mean heart men
When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart. Edgar Allan Poe
mean poor made
I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.
mean doctors six-months
Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. Eleanor Clift
mean astrology psychology
The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things. Eleanor Catton
mean thinking suggestions
Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life. Eleanor Roosevelt
mean past mind
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
mean opportunity preparation
If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it.
mean doctors sick
To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.