“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.” MenWayWantMayMeanTwoHappensHappinessResultsEasierInner PeaceBeing HappyDiminishPursuit Of HappinessTwo WaysJust Be HappyWant To Be HappyHappy ManI Just Want To Be HappyI Want To Be HappyJust Want To Be Happy Author:Benjamin Franklin
“You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.” KnowsWorldMeanResultsKnow HowBecomingUnityAccessEducatedSupposed To BeBoredSignificanceThickTextureRandomness Author:Eva Brann
“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.” MeanStatesActionAmericaFormIndividualResultsCommunicationMythManipulationDevotedEmployedInertiaPassivity Author:Herbert Schiller
“The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.” MeanSocialProcessResultsImpossibleEconomicPerfectionAvailableInstanceGoodsQuantityInherentIrrationalUnlimitedConstraints Author:Thomas Sowell
“I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.” MeanRealGovernmentStrongResultsCitiesPathDoubtEffectsHonestImprovementNo DoubtEmployeeFewerEfficientAggressionRippleWrongdoingWrong PathRipple EffectCity Government Author:David Hoffman
“Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.” WorldWayMeanFormResultsBeauty Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.” WorldFeelsMeanImportantFormArtistGivenWaitingResultsThis WorldPaintingVariousSurfaceContemporaryPainterLandscapeVisibleProductiveInternalsStimulus Author:Edward Betts
“George W. Bush has a new campaign slogan: "A reformer with results." I don't know what it means [but] I think it's better than his old campaign slogan: "A dumb guy with connections.” ThinkingKnowsMeanGuyResultsConnectionsCampaignsDumbSlogansReformersDumb Guy Author:David Letterman
“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.” FirstsHeartMeanLeftTermWaterResultsTroubleSkyRegretDifficultyDisappointmentBurningFewerSmoothPresidency Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.” PeopleMindFirstsBelieveMayMeanSometimesUsedGoalResultsStudyRevolutionProgramMethodCarefulObjectivesMotiveCharacteristicsConsiderationHistoricChanging Your Mind Author:Malcolm X
“The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary, as then conducted whether Catholic or Protestant, Jewish or Mohammedan, was the most perfect.” MenMeanYoungReadingPerfectResultsCareersStudyWallHealthyReflectionCatholicCurrentsObservationYoung ManHelpfulProfessorsAssociatesDestinedNew ThoughtTheologicalProtestantsStiflingSeminary Author:Andrew Dickson White
“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.” PeopleThinkingWantMeanLittlesKidsArtistGirlFightingAbilityResultsHarderRejectionDancerUnnecessary Author:Laurieann Gibson
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanI CanEndsSufferingHurtAnimalResultsTenYeahAddressesJustifyEnds Justify The Means Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?” MenMindMeanImportantCharacterSeemsPleasureResultsOpinionStudyGreaterGainsValuableGuestsBiographiesAcquaintanceElevation Book:Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete
“Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis.” MeanEasyResultsMethodInventionAnalysisConstructionEquationsElegantDemonstrationIngenuityRefinedAlgebra Book:1691-1695 Source: 1691-1695
“The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.” MeanPastSpiritualResultsPoetElementsNormalLimitationAtmosphereMixturesDissolution Author:Novalis