Means Quotes
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There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different things.
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If we cut our batch sizes in half, then I guess that at any one time we’d have half the work-in-process on the floor. I guess that means we’d only need half the investment in work-in-process to keep the plant working. If we could work it out with our vendors, we could conceivably cut all our inventories in half, and by cutting our inventories in half, we reduce the amount of cash tied up at any one time, which eases the pressure on cash flow.
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He's our catalyst, he means everything to this team. I think there's not a man in here that doesn't realize that Johnny kind of makes us go. He's very, very important to us. I know he's a tough player and he'll be back out on the field for us soon.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
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But this is the point I want to make: When you talk about steroids and you talk about what it means to the game, the three greatest home run hitters of all time-Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays, right? When they were 39 years old, how many home runs do you think they averaged? The three greatest home run hitters of all time averaged 18 home runs at age 39. Now, how many home runs did Barry Bonds hit when he was 39? He hit 73!
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Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?
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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments if one suffices.
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
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Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.
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By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.
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Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.
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It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.
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I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained.
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Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
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Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind.
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
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In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.
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For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
