Top Mean Quotes Collection - Page 3

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Image of Sara Paxton
'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path.
- Sara Paxton
Collection: Mean
Image of Po Bronson
Good competitive skills means not just to compete hard, but to selectively compete, to harness your energy for the things that matter and, in some cases, to just realize it doesn't matter whether I win or lose here at all.
- Po Bronson
Collection: Mean
Image of C.D. Wright
Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
- C.D. Wright
Collection: Mean
Image of Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Collection: Mean
Image of Rebel Wilson
Usually when I ask people to reach into my velvety pouch it means something different.
- Rebel Wilson
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Sienkiewicz
Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story
- Bill Sienkiewicz
Collection: Mean
Image of Richard John Neuhaus
Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.
- Richard John Neuhaus
Collection: Mean
Image of Michael Thomas Ford
I’ve been thinking about that ever since. Am I lucky? Am I lucky that I didn’t die? Am I lucky that, compared to the other kids here, my life doesn’t seem so bad? Maybe I am, but I have to say, I don’t feel lucky. For one thing, I’m stuck in this pit. And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.
- Michael Thomas Ford
Collection: Mean
Image of Jill Bolte Taylor
Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of the nervous system, do not multiply (for the most part) after we are born. That means that the majority of the neurons in your brain today are as old as you are. This longevity of the neurons partially accounts for why we feel pretty much the same on the inside at the age of 10 as we do at age 30 or 77.
- Jill Bolte Taylor
Collection: Mean
Image of David Schwimmer
If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.
- David Schwimmer
Collection: Mean
Image of David Schwimmer
At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it.
- David Schwimmer
Collection: Mean
Image of Shin Kyung-sook
Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.
- Shin Kyung-sook
Collection: Mean
Image of N. T. Wright
The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.
- N. T. Wright
Collection: Mean
Image of Jeanne Moreau
To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­
- Jeanne Moreau
Collection: Mean
Image of Amber Tamblyn
After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.
- Amber Tamblyn
Collection: Mean
Image of Amber Tamblyn
Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.
- Amber Tamblyn
Collection: Mean
Image of Don Shula
There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.
- Don Shula
Collection: Mean
Image of Sharon Tate
If you just take it down to bare facts, the reason for living is the reason you make it. I mean the brain was made to create.
- Sharon Tate
Collection: Mean
Image of J. K. Rowling
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
- J. K. Rowling
Collection: Mean
Image of Brian K. Vaughan
Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
- Brian K. Vaughan
Collection: Mean
Image of Neil Strauss
We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.
- Neil Strauss
Collection: Mean
Image of Shay Mitchell
Age is really just a number to me and means every year I get to experience so much more.
- Shay Mitchell
Collection: Mean
Image of Ellen Page
I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?
- Ellen Page
Collection: Mean
Image of Enid Blyton
I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.
- Enid Blyton
Collection: Mean
Image of Chip Heath
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
- Chip Heath
Collection: Mean
Image of Brian Selznick
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
- Brian Selznick
Collection: Mean
Image of Daniel J. Siegel
Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.
- Daniel J. Siegel
Collection: Mean
Image of Nicki Minaj
Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive
- Nicki Minaj
Collection: Mean
Image of Gordon Ramsay
Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.
- Gordon Ramsay
Collection: Mean
Image of Nawal El Saadawi
Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.
- Nawal El Saadawi
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig Quidde
Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
- Ludwig Quidde
Collection: Mean
Image of Jack Black
Just because you don't know how to do stand-up doesn't mean you don't know how to put on a show.
- Jack Black
Collection: Mean
Image of Tony Shalhoub
I was in a restaurant, and it just struck me, something I'd never thought of before. And it's menus in the restaurant just hit me. I was ordering and I thought, "God, think of all the people who handle these meals day in and day out" and they, I mean you're going to a restaurant, you can be pretty - you can feel secure that they wash the silverware in the kitchen and the linens and all that stuff, but they don't wash their menus, who washes menus? Now, I've got to worry about that for the rest of my life.
- Tony Shalhoub
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Ryan
Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we`re going to lower the rates on our businesses and be fair.
- Paul Ryan
Collection: Mean
Image of Niklaus Wirth
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.
- Niklaus Wirth
Collection: Mean
Image of Mike Royko
For some people, being free means being free to keep their feet on someone else's chest.
- Mike Royko
Collection: Mean
Image of Saul Bellow
We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.
- Saul Bellow
Collection: Mean
Image of Elvis Stojko
By no means because I am a World Champion will I ever stop learning and that’s the biggest thing that’s difficult for someone to see.
- Elvis Stojko
Collection: Mean
Image of Allan Pease
We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.
- Allan Pease
Collection: Mean
Image of Frederick Salomon Perls
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
- Frederick Salomon Perls
Collection: Mean
Image of Bruce H. Lipton
Only when Spirit and Science are reunited will we be afforded the means to a better world.
- Bruce H. Lipton
Collection: Mean
Image of Mary E. Pearson
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
- Mary E. Pearson
Collection: Mean
Image of Hilari Bell
Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.
- Hilari Bell
Collection: Mean
Image of Wilhelm Wundt
Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing more than the subjective reproduction of the regularity according to the law of natural phenomena. On the other hand, this reproduction is only possible by means of the will that controls the concatenation of ideas.
- Wilhelm Wundt
Collection: Mean
Image of Deborah Smith
Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.
- Deborah Smith
Collection: Mean
Image of Paul Verlaine
A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.
- Paul Verlaine
Collection: Mean
Image of Harry Stack Sullivan
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself can best phrase what he wishes to communicate to the patient; and, at the same time, observing the general pattern of the events being communicated. In addition to that, to make notes which will be of more than evocative value, or come anywhere near being a verbatim record of what is said, in my opinion is beyond the capacity of most human beings.
- Harry Stack Sullivan
Collection: Mean
Image of Joaquin Phoenix
For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.
- Joaquin Phoenix
Collection: Mean