Quotes about mean
mean thinking laughing
People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean. Eileen Brennan
meaningful effort results
The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful. Eileen Atkins
mean tables fame
Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
mean learning thinking
We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible. Edsger Dijkstra
mean understanding doe
Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.
mean warrior reality
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. This, my friends, is the crux of our solitude. Eduardo Galeano
mean interesting community
In this world which is losing faith in so called representative democracy, there are new developments in participatory democracy. These are very interesting developments, reflecting the revitalization of community power with a more and more active presence of minorities in political life, including the presence of women who are of course by no means a minority.
mean greed sin
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. Edward Abbey
mean doe ends
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
mean environmental world
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it.
mean men ends
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
mean leader clubs
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
meaningful blessing mind
Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
mean men ideal-society
The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
mean exercise world
Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
mean eyebrows mind
My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen. Eddie Redmayne
mean piano guitar
The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records. Eddie Van Halen
mean race people
I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.
mean actors may
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. Atom Egoyan
mean good-day people
The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days. Atul Gawande
meaningful pain sleep
In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.
mean may circumstances
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them.
mean men class
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult—to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many. Aristotle
mean missing feelings
Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.
mean bravery excess
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
mean interesting virtue
Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
mean writing style
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.
mean action clear
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
mean ideas ends
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends.
mean acceptance ends
We deliberate not about ends, but about means.
mean law politics
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
mean incidents myth
By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents
mean hypnosis three
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.