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Image of Erich Fromm
I would define myself as a Marxian, and that means of course also as a humanist.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Erich Fromm
To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Ron Kaufman
Your promise means more than the words you use to give it.
- Ron Kaufman
Collection: Mean
Image of Lauren Graham
Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.
- Lauren Graham
Collection: Mean
Image of Lauren Graham
I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well.
- Lauren Graham
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Image of Ruth Gordon
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
- Ruth Gordon
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Image of Ruth Gordon
I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
- Ruth Gordon
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Lauren Groff
When I meet people I try to make a joke out of my occupation, explaining that what I do all day is sit alone in a darkened room, flicking through some pages, jumping on a treadmill now and then. I keep my serious work as a writer private, but that doesn't mean it's not serious work - quite the opposite.
- Lauren Groff
Collection: Mean
Image of Lauren Groff
Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.
- Lauren Groff
Collection: Mean
Image of Paulo Freire
Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such a relationship, dominator and dominated alike are reduced to things- the former dehumanized by an excess of power, the latter by a lack of it. And things cannot love.
- Paulo Freire
Collection: Mean
Image of Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
- Paulo Freire
Collection: Mean
Image of Paulo Freire
Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.
- Paulo Freire
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Indira Gandhi
The fact that I have an ideology, however, doesn't mean I'm indoctrinated.
- Indira Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor, it can be utterly spoiled for us, for we are usually not the first. What does discovery mean, and who can say that he has discovered this or that? After all it's pure idiocy to brag about priority; for it's simply unconscious conceit, not to admit frankly that one is a plagiarist.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: Mean
Image of Elliott Abrams
Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?
- Elliott Abrams
Collection: Mean
Image of Al Gore
Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.
- Al Gore
Collection: Mean
Image of James A. Garfield
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
- James A. Garfield
Collection: Mean
Image of John Frusciante
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.
- John Frusciante
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Tom Ford
If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so it should be exactly the way you want it, exactly the way you would have chosen it. People call me a control freak, and I say, "Well, my name is on the shoe." It means the heel needs to be the way I want it and not the way somebody else wants it, and the toe needs to be exactly the way I want it, and the fabric and the material have to be exactly the way I want it. It is not a democracy - it is a dictatorship.
- Tom Ford
Collection: Mean
Image of Al Franken
It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
- Al Franken
Collection: Mean
Image of John Green
Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.
- John Green
Collection: Mean
Image of Shakti Gawain
Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.
- Shakti Gawain
Collection: Mean
Image of Ina Garten
You can get bogged down in a recipe that's got a lot of steps and a million ingredients, and it takes all day to make. And then you realize, you've just got one dish. For Thanksgiving, you want an abundance of choices, and so you want dishes that you can put together really quickly, but that doesn't mean less flavor.
- Ina Garten
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mean
Image of Aristotle
...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.
- Aristotle
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Image of Erich Fromm
The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Jean Giraudoux
The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.
- Jean Giraudoux
Collection: Mean
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being poets. Poets send their creations into the world, it is up to the reader, the aesthetician, and the critic to determine what they wanted to say with their creations.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Jason Silva
The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.
- Jason Silva
Collection: Mean
Image of Jason Silva
The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We already have people with Parkinson's that have chips installed in their brain to control their tremors. We already see people have pacemakers to help their heartbeats. I mean we're already putting these technologies into our bodies. It is only going to deepen.
- Jason Silva
Collection: Mean
Image of Jason Silva
The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.
- Jason Silva
Collection: Mean
Image of Jason Silva
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.
- Jason Silva
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Jay Asher
What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.
- Jay Asher
Collection: Mean
Image of Pope Francis
We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.
- Pope Francis
Collection: Mean
Image of Seth Godin
By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong, you've just started the firing process.
- Seth Godin
Collection: Mean
Image of Whoopi Goldberg
The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...
- Whoopi Goldberg
Collection: Mean
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Mean
Image of Robert M. Gates
I think when it comes to the issues, I'd advise him to stick to the script. But, I mean, Donald Trump is going to have some very tough conversations and he's going to be talking about some very tough and complicated issues in all of the places that he visits.I think anytime a president does things that are humanizing, I think it's - it's good.
- Robert M. Gates
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Image of Erich Fromm
The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Mean
Image of Andy Goldsworthy
I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.
- Andy Goldsworthy
Collection: Mean
Image of David Edelstein
Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats.
- David Edelstein
Collection: Mean
Image of Khalil Gibran
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.
- Khalil Gibran
Collection: Mean