Quotes about mean
mean intelligent thinking
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future. John Dewey
mean use needs
I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need. John Cale
mean want minimalist
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.
mean poverty
Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means. John Calipari
mean thinking goal
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action does so only as a means of better grasping one dominant goal the patterns of individual redemption. Stirner and Nietzsche are not primarily interested in critique as such. ... Their work is too egoistically compelled for them ever to employ the external world as more than the repository for a series of projections of their own. John Carroll
mean passion expression
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.
mean thinking views
It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory. John Calvin
mean humility passion
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
mean men determined
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
mean guilt innocence
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
mean repentance distinguished
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
mean two golden
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
mean wish ifs
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
mean insanity christ
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
mean men names
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
mean suffering sin
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
mean men people
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
mean sheep two
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
mean fate persistence
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. John Bates Clark
mean bored resources
Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources. John Berryman
mean opportunity challenges
When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the style he inherits, the conventions he must obey, his prescribed or freely chosen subject matter - as constituting both an opportunity and a restraint. John Berger
mean cutting past
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
mean thinking forget-everything
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.
mean artist perfection
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
mean excellence achieve
To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it. John Avery
mean ethical-standards understanding
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards. Johan Huizinga
mean numbers understanding
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.
mean science technology
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.
mean news junkie
I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now. Joan Lunden
mean tree branches
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass. Joan Miro
mean expression impact
As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with, followed up by an impact on the psyche.
mean light economics
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national. Joan Robinson
mean enjoy-life alive
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive. Joan Rivers