Quotes about men
men law iron
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements. Charles Sanders Peirce
men envy lasts
It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.
men belief humans
Whenever a man acts purposively, he acts under a belief in some experimental phenomenon. Consequently, the sum of the experimental phenomena that a proposition implies makes up its entire bearing upon human conduct.
men ideas intellectual
It is terrible to see how a single unclear idea, a single formula without meaning, lurking in a young man's head, will sometimes act like an obstruction of inert matter in an artery, hindering the nutrition of the brain and condemning its victim to pine away in the fullness of his intellectual vigor and in the midst of intellectual plenty.
men empathy understanding
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man. Charles M. Blow
men might cain
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. Charles Mackay
men thinking mad
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
men stupidity musical
I admire anyone who can come up with something original. But not originality alone, because there can be originality in stupidity, with no musical description of any emotion or any beauty the man has seen, or any kind of life he has lived. Charles Mingus
men white black
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but not famed enough to make a living in this society.
men speech given
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
men shadow reputation
The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.
men speech given
Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]
men appreciate fool
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
men done he-man
The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing. Charles M. Schwab
men salary dollars
I am not a believer in large salaries. I hold that every man should be paid for personal production. Our big men at Bethlehem seldom get salaries of over one hundred dollars a week; but all of them receive bonuses computed entirely on the efficiencies and the economies registered in their departments.
men instance knows
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
men effort criticism
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
men giving failing
The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.
men receiving wages
What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
men today way
There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.
men self salary
The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.
men thinking trying
The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.
men hands leader
American industry is spilling over with men who started life even with the leaders, with brains just as big, with hands quite as capable. And yet one man emerges from the mass, rises sheer about his fellows; and the rest remain.
men dresses may
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks.
men limits can-do
When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.
men joints he-man
All the men in the joint raised me up, told me what to do, what was right and wrong, told me when to sit down, when to stand up, I just did whatever I was told. Charles Manson
men world dangerous-man
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
men care want
Most of the attorneys just want the publicity of the trial. They don't care about the man at all. If there was some kind of writ that could get me out of here tomorrow, they wouldn't bring it, because they all want to go through the whole trial and wring every last drop of publicity out of the whole thing.
men mirrors he-man
I am the man in the mirror, anything you see in me is in you, I am you, and when you can admit that you will be free. I am just a mirror.
men giants kind
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. Charles Henry Parkhurst
men selfishness he-man
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
men way music-is
Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man. Charles Ives
men may language
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.