Quotes about mean
mean simple noble
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless J. R. R. Tolkien
mean late
We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R. R. Tolkien
mean moon black
Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed. J. R. R. Tolkien
mean comfort holes
It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort J. R. R. Tolkien
mean purpose knowledge-of-god
The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. J. R. R. Tolkien
mean men practice
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and practice Izaak Walton
mean way authenticity
Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. Iyanla Vanzant
mean self people
I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. Iyanla Vanzant
mean space be-true-to-yourself
Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated Iyanla Vanzant
mean doe fists
I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own. Iyanla Vanzant
mean cutting doors
When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used. Iyanla Vanzant
mean events fairness
The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response. Iyanla Vanzant
mean self healthy
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full. Iyanla Vanzant
mean unconditional-love giving
You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it. Iyanla Vanzant
mean opportunity ideas
Step into this moment, because it is the only one you have right now. It is not wasted or thrown away. The divine opportunity could be stolen unless you tell yourself it is here right now; available to you this moment, to make of it anything you choose. Why not choose this moment, right now, to be available to yourself by declaring, I AM GOOD! . . . . The richness of the present is here. The fullness of now is present. If you are not here now, it means you could be missing the love, joy, peace and brand-new ideas that are here right now. Iyanla Vanzant
mean acceptance bigger
Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay. Iyanla Vanzant
mean important firsts
It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever. Isaac Hanson
mean men hatred
If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous. Isaac Barrow
mean thinking curiosity
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw Isaac Asimov
meaningful data answers
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. Isaac Asimov
mean agriculture environmental
It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation. Irene Rosenfeld
mean skills care
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent. Immanuel Kant
mean men order
The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men. Immanuel Kant
mean men animal
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. Immanuel Kant
mean humanity use
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end. Immanuel Kant
mean ends treated
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. Immanuel Kant
mean compassion people
Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. Immanuel Kant
mean science ends
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. Immanuel Kant
mean goal doe
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Immanuel Kant
mean humanity way
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. Immanuel Kant
mean years car
I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric. Elon Musk
mean government people
Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs. Elon Musk
mean odds years
Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve. Elon Musk