Quotes about mean
mean people loses
It’s no good to lose touch with people who mean a lot, Robyn Carr
mean intelligent use
I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means. Robin Williams
meaningful real carpe-diem
If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
mean dead-poets-society bones
Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.
mean men self
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. Robin G. Collingwood
mean
My work means everything to me. Robin Gibb
mean thinking talking
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don't mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I'm talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right. ~Amber Robin Hobb
mean boredom trying
Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.
mean people good-man
When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility. Robert Wilson Lynd
mean thinking my-own
I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me. Robert Winston
mean cutting doctors
Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
meaningful painting subjects
The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.
mean views people
We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept them. But the 'Chicken Little' view of history isn't correct. Changes take place gradually, and people and institutions adapt. Robert Reischauer
meaningful differences way
Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part. Robert Ryan
mean coherence obscurity
I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence. Robert Reich
mean thinking years
There's a lot of hyperventilation that takes off before the [Sundance Film] Festival, a lot of buzz. Every year we hear, this is going to be the new this, this is going to be the new that, and it never is. The buzz just doesn't mean anything. I'm glad it doesn't. Because I think the festival shows that what succeeds is content. Robert Redford
mean talking achieve
Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.
mean thinking years
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not simply computerized brains. By focusing totally on the present, thinking only about science and computers, and forgetting four billion years of life on this planet, we are losing perspective on who and what we are. Robert Neelly Bellah
mean responsibility democracy
Our culture is at a critical cusp - a time that requires that we define what it means to be a citizen in a democracy. Within our nation we need to foster a greater sense of collective responsibility.
mean doe ends
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? Robert Moses
mean always-trying facts
All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean. Robert Mueller
meaningful president important
So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.
mean people way
Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse. Robert Mugabe
mean arise distribution
A distribution is just if it arises from another just distribution by legitimate means. Robert Nozick
mean drawing secret
For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them. Robert Motherwell
mean men ideas
An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage in actions that mean something else to him than to others, but he is at peace with himself about everything as long as he can make it all come together in a fine idea. Robert Musil
mean expectations wish
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. Robert E. Lee
mean men thinking
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.
mean people affection
People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection. Robert Cormier
mean roots growth
First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth. Robert Collier
mean despair ordinary
It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
mean law desire
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
mean animal names
Well, I quite like animals, but theyre unpredictable. I mean, look at old whats-his-name in Vegas. Tiger dragged him off the stage, you know? The guy brought up tigers. Theyre quite unpredictable. Robbie Coltraine