Quotes About Means

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions; and I am confident that, as our circumstances are more flourishing, our means are greater than the nobleman's.

Everywhere the means is erected into the end, and the end itself is forgotten.

The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an aim can be taken for granted. The real question concerns the proper means of achieving it. And in trying to answer this we must never lose sight of a few elementary truisms. We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

It is best to avoid analogy except for purposes of suggestion, or as a rhetorical device for explaining an idea already arrived at by other means.

All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

Only by using a 'structured means of control' can an organization convert high-cost controls into business-assuring, profit-enhancing control.

To desire worship as an end is carnal; to desire it as a means, and act desires in it for communion with God in it, is spiritual, and the fruit of a spiritual life.

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

I think most short story writers, at one time or another, over the course of several books, naturally skirt near the edge of one genre or another.

Todo puede ser fácil por algunos medios, e inaccesible por otros. La ocasión y la oportunidad tienen sus privilegios, y ofrecen a menudo al pueblo aquello que rehúsan a sus reyes, La curiosidad, a menudo, se pone trabas a sí misma como también lo hacen la grandeza y la potencia.

We cannot be held to promises beyond our power or our means. That is why - since nothing is really in our power but our will - it is on the will that all the rules and duties of Man are based and established.

In other words, our destiny is to become the gods that we once feared and worshipped. Science will give us the means by which we can shape the universe in our image.

Figura 3.3. Focalización en los medios con el objetivo de lograr los

Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.

Sometimes powerful magic is accomplished by simple means.

That our sanctification did not depend upon changing our works, but in doing that for GOD's sake, which we commonly do for our own. That it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.

The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better. Hoppie's dictum to me, First with the head and then with the heart, was more than simply mixing brains with guts. It meant thinking well beyond the powers of normal concentration and then daring your courage to follow your thoughts.

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

Creating a monument is a matter of taste and values and the means to get it made. Once you monumentalize a person, place, or thing, you run the risk of worship. And what we worship, for better or for worse, freezes the story.