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“Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.”

“Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Might Artist Changed Expression Evolution Variation Vary

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“Children make better readers than adults. They read as carefully as I write; adults read as a means of getting off to sleep. I get letters saying 'I have read your book seventeen times.' If you're an adult novelist and you get that letter, you should be afraid. You're being stalked. Kids always read them seventeen times!”

Ifs Should Writing Mean Children Book Kids Sleep Reader Adults Letters Novelists Seventeen

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“If you look at a photograph, and you think, 'My isn't that a beautiful photograph,' and you go on to the next one, or 'Isn't that nice light?' so what? I mean what does it do to you or what's the real value in the long run? What do you walk away from it with? I mean, I'd much rather show you a photograph that makes demands on you, that you might become involved in on your own terms or be perplexed by.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Mean Long Doe Real Shows Light Might Running Beautiful Values Next Term Walks Nice Goes On Involved Demand Photograph Long Runs The Next One Real Value Perplexed

Author:Duane Michals

“You just have to change. To be successful, what you have to do is have an acceptance of risk and you have to be pretty explicit about that, because if you don’t accept risk, you don’t get any innovation. And that means part of risk is you have to accept failure because not everything works.”

Ifs Mean Accepting Successful Risk Acceptance Innovation Being Successful Explicit

Author:Michael Dell

“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don't mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too - the terms with which they are connected to other people.”

People Ifs Kind Mean Art Seems Faces Term Effort Connected Magazines Confession Dreary

Author:James A. Baldwin

“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”

Ifs Needs Mean Facts Would Be Values Order Simple Teaching Highest Careful Statements Observation Accurate Indispensable Verification

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Freedom without organization of work would be useless. The child left free without means of work would go to waste, just as a new-born baby, if left free without nourishment, would die of starvation.The organization of the work, therefore, is the cornerstone of this new structure of goodness [in education], but even that organization would be in vain without the liberty to make use of it.”

Ifs Mean Children Use Would Be Dies Left Born Liberty Baby Goodness Waste Organization Structure Useless Vain Starvation Nourishment Cornerstones

Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.”

Ifs Mean Action Passion Intervals

Author:Laurence Sterne

“My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.”

Ifs Mean Kids Careers Wife My Family Artificial

Author:Mel Gibson

“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

Ifs Mean Self Whole Feelings Nations Discipline Newspapers Self Respect

Author:Matthew Arnold

“Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.”

People Ifs Feels Mind Humans Mean Doe States Reality Contact Touched State Of Mind Dread Inward Overpopulation Overcrowding

Book:The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel

“If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.”

Ifs Men Mean Doe Found Work Destiny Tasks Busy Likes Enthusiasm Mortals Bees Busy Bee

Book:True bills

Source: True bills

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

“If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he who in our daily sight Seems but a figure mean and small, Outlined in Fame's illusive light, May stalk, a silhouette sublime, Across the canvas of his time.”

Ifs Men May Mean Light Seems Figures Wall Fame Shadow Sight Giants Canvas Sublime Stalking Mould Silhouettes

Author:John Townsend Trowbridge

“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.”

Ifs Way May Mean Done Enough Given Break Tears Limits Remains Affair Tire Anarchism Break Through Toiling

Author:Max Stirner

“It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.”

Ifs World Giving Mean Seems Values Individual Interest Illusion Backgrounds Secure Preserves Streams Cosmos Meaningless Artificial Arbitrary Englishmen

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”

Ifs Mean Eye Speak Language Race Blood Stage Hair Speech Bones Sinner Again And Again Grammar Dictionary Skulls Linguists Scandinavians

Author:Max Muller

“Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.”

Ifs Thinking Men Mean Able Names Heaven Waiting White Figures Terrible Ordinary All Things Longing Endless Gates Doomed Ordinary Man

Book:Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories

Source: Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories

“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”

Ifs Men Mean Littles Refuse Obstacles Be Good Teeth Great Things Temples Little Man

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Persons Lines Hundred Autographs Signing Signing Autographs

Author:Clay Aiken

“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”

Ifs Mean Said Sound Higher They Said Jargon

Book:The Jargon of Authenticity

Source: The Jargon of Authenticity

“I can tell in two minutes if I should hire someone in the kitchen. Two minutes. It's his desire. It's that open-eyed, attentive expression. If he doesn't have it ... I mean, I can teach a chimp how to cook dinner. But I cannot teach a chimp how to love it.”

Ifs Should Mean I Can Two Desire Teach Minutes Expression Cooking Dinner Cooks Kitchen How To Love

Author:Mario Batali

“It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.”

Ifs Mean Said Self Would Be Heaven Hell Eternal Devil Gods Will Paradise Adam Lucifer Self Will

Author:Martin Luther

“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.”

Ifs Mean Pleasure Duty Ambition Satisfaction Golden Doing Right Golden Mean

Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

“If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean I Can Ends Suffering Hurt Animal Results Ten Yeah Addresses Justify Ends Justify The Means

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a tangle, and seek freedom in retirement, as Thoreau sought at Walden Pond. They do not, however, in this manner escape from the social institutions of their time, nor do they really mean to do so; what they gain, if they are successful, is a saner relation to them.”

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“He that would be content with a mean condition must not cast his eye upon one that is in a far better estate than himself, but let him look upon him that is lower than he is, and, if he see that such a one bears poverty comfortably, it will help to quiet him.”

Ifs Looks Mean Helping Would Be Eye Poverty Conditions Bears Quiet Casts His Eyes Look Up Estates

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.”

“It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Mean Nations Differences Human Beings Answers Race Depends Conscious Superiors Despise

Author:Enoch Powell

“The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.”

Ifs Knows Men Giving Mean Littles Important Home Women Animal Strange Birth Creatures Female Profound Males Notion Spread Caves Innovative Giving Birth Hunted

Book:Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

Source: Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970

“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”

Ifs Mean Whole Order Felt Natural Planets Broken Importance Committed Flesh Rhythm Schemes Pulling Disturbed Jogging Natural Order Logging

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.”

Ifs Want Heart Mean Philosophy Facts Form Goal Existence Expression Morality Highest Ethics Statements Cognition

Author:Novalis

“If you mean to know yourself, interline such of these aphorisms as affect you agreeably in reading, and set a mark to such as left a sense of uneasiness with you; and then show your copy to whom you please.”

Ifs Knows Mean Shows Reading Left Please Mark Copies Aphorism Know Yourself Uneasiness

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.”

Ifs Mean Ends Father Differences Successful Hero Succeed Judgment Ethics Outcomes Patriotic Spells Founding Traitor Success Or Failure Rules For Radicals

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.”

Ifs Mean Hands Fighting Enemy Victory Conquer Really Mean Laurels Bayonets

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“The kind of love my mum talks about is full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that. It's not a lot of fun, that's for sure. If that really is love, the kind my mum talks about, then nobody can ever know if they love somebody, can they? It seems like what she's saying is, if you're pretty sure you love somebody, the way I was sure in those few weeks, then you can't love them, because that isn't what love is. Trying to understand what she means by love would do your head in.”

People Ifs Knows Way Love Trying Kind Mean Seems Fun Stuff Love Is Worry Week Forgiving Mum Kinds Of Love You Re Pretty Forgiving People

Author:Nick Hornby

“In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one.”

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