Mean Quotes

Music is only a means to an end – it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars – and the short peace more than the long.

I define “grindin'” as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can’t sleep during that grind – I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you’re progressin’ at every hour, every second, you are grindin’.

There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

Your product should sell itself, but that does not mean you don’t need salespeople.

By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.