Quotes about mean
mean thinking people
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means. Chris Cleave
mean stories alive
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
mean secret dying
We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.
mean dying doe
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
mean writing connections
But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days. Chris Colfer
mean focus littles
Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.
mean government choices
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts. Chris Christie
mean president united-states
If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.
mean fans doe
It is great to have direct, unfiltered, interaction with your fans on Twitter and FaceBook, or whatever. I am not totally convinced that it has revolutionized the sales model. Its not completely apparent to me that it is easier to sell music. Obviously, there is a possibility of smaller bands, having their music listened to, but I am not sure to what degree it actually happens. Just because it can happen, doesn't mean it does. Chris Cain
mean forever stories
My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up. Chris Brown
mean kids gay
I've gotten a lot of young gay kids come up to me and talk to me about how the little things I've said in the press has helped them come out to their parents, or just be open with who they are, and feeling invigorated by that. So that honestly means a lot to me to hear that the things that I say in the press, they do hear, and they see, and it helps them at least to start the conversation. Chloe Grace Moretz
mean love-is creative
Love is at once the most creative and yet simultaneously destructive force in the world, and thus, in our lives. And I don't mean the Hallmark sentimental type of love, although that is part of it. But a deeper obligation that we have to each other: the obligation to reflect our humanness at each other, to reflect back the things others show us and we, them. Chris Abani
mean political reason
I didn't leave Africa, I left Nigeria, and for political reasons. But ... I've never, never left Africa, and I certainly never left what it means to be Ibo. That is something you carry with you.
mean meditation simplicity
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. Chogyam Trungpa
mean practice confusion
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way.
mean cynical ego
As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.
mean dark appreciate
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners...
meaningful world human-life
The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
mean unique essence
Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.
meaningful today counting
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life? Chip Conley
mean profile
Profiles mean nothing. You could say, 'I want this,' but then it's not out there. Chip Kelly
mean men rivers
The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river. Chiwetel Ejiofor
mean writing useless
Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. Chinua Achebe
mean hell protest
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. Chico Hamilton
mean reality actions-have-consequences
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices. China Mieville
mean facts minimalist
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
mean past rights
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
mean writing fiction
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
mean thinking careers
If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance. Dave Douglas
mean thinking people
And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed. Dave Edmunds
mean stills discussing
Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian. Dave Foley
mean kids careers
I mean, 'Kids In The Hall' is the reason I have any career at all.
mean challenges life-is
Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live. Darren Shan