Quotes about mean
mean power-of-one persons
To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another. Ivan Illich
meaningful men circles
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others.
meaningful teaching school
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
mean people brain
Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means. Isak Dinesen
mean ice nuts
I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these armed ideological nuts wandering around loose. He said that for him, to "ice" someone means to reprimand them. Ishmael Reed
mean long way
If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out. Iris Dement
mean care individual
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible. Irvin D. Yalom
mean growth love-means
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
mean eye convince-us
Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers. Iris Murdoch
mean feet self
Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower...
mean years hot
And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit]. Immanuel Velikovsky
mean cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof love-means
I don't know what love means. Imogen Cunningham
mean choices together
You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor. Ina Garten
mean writing pretending
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending. Imelda May
mean names extravagance
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail. Imelda Marcos
mean men dresses
When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down. Ike Turner
mean wheels revolution
Revolution means turning the wheel. Igor Stravinsky
mean order law
I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me. Idi Amin
mean thinking adrift
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. Idries Shah
mean generosity gains
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
mean opportunity careers
You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better. Idris Elba
mean home circus
I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while. Its weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, theres nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But Ive kind of gotten used to it.
mean winning class
Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society. Hyman Rickover
mean car ferrari
I love the practicality of a good car. You know what I mean? And when I say 'practicality,' I mean the complete practicality of a Ferrari 458, a wonderfully fantastic every day car. Hunter Hayes
mean thinking dedication
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication. Huston Smith
mean wife population
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda] Gregory Maguire
mean shoes let-it-go
I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!
mean sound corny
You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more. Glynis Johns
mean being-in-love thinking
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside. Gloria Vanderbilt
mean singers way
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues. Gloria Steinem
mean men waiting
Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
mean years lasts
It's going to take a while because for the last 500 years patriarchal societies have been devoted to controlling reproduction and that means controlling women. So we got into this masculine/feminine, dominant/passive paradigm, and it's going to take a while to get out.
mean evil ends
The ends and means are a seamless web.