Mean Quotes - Page 30

• B2B does not mean boring marketing.

  Beth Comstock

  Marketing, Doe, Boring

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• If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

  Linda Rottenberg

  Crazy, Thinking, Enough

  Linda Rottenberg (2014). “Crazy Is a Compliment: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags”, p.26, Penguin

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• No thought can encapsulate the vastness of the totality. Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments. Every thought implies a perspective, and every perspective, by its very nature, implies limitation, which ultimately means that it is not true, at least not absolutely. Only the whole is true, but the whole cannot be spoken or thought.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Reality, Perspective

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• The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

  Truman Capote

  Artist, Obligation

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.

  Jon Foreman

  Pride, People, Broken

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• I think that's a challenge as believers - how do you demonstrate the gospel? How do you do that? I mean it's easy to talk about it and say 'Oh this is what we are supposed to be doing' and this is the relevance. But how do you do that with your hands instead of your mouth? How do you do it every day, instead of just onstage, how is it enacted? And I feel like that is one of the ways that we can show what we believe, by how we treat people around the world.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Thinking, Hands

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• I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.

  Jon Foreman

  Spiritual, Distance, Thinking

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• My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Religious, Needs

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• Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Decision, Pet

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• Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

  Charlie Haden

  Angel, Play, Chords

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Mar 19, 2012

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• In the art world, Monet means money.

  Fiona Bruce

  Art, World, Monet

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• Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of something. To have someone cry for me.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Gazing, Cry

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Dance Dance Dance”, p.5, Random House

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• For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.'

  Bruce Campbell

  Long, Hollywood, Actors

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• The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Work, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.93, Penguin

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• You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to selfless service--it is not a virtue in my morality. In my morality, the defense of one's country means that a man is personally unwilling to live as the conquered slave of any enemy, foreign or domestic. This is an enormous virtue.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Men, Insults You

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.18, Penguin

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• Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow!
  But it means that they have the ability to deal with it

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Sorrow, Faces

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• I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

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• No really - listen. I believe in signs, and that things are meant to be, I truly do. But try and be open to anything, okay? It doesn't always have to be so hard. Sometimes falling in love just means turning around and seeing what's right in front of you.

  Alice Clayton

  Falling In Love, Believe, Trying

  Alice Clayton (2014). “Screwdrivered”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.

  Reba McEntire

  Thinking, Careers, What If

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• There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

  Robert Frost

  Voice, Tone

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Time, Learning

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 04, 2012

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• A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

  Afshin Molavi

  Weed, War, Integrity

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• A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

  Edmund Burke

  Survival, Reform, Nations

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• People who are having a love-sex relationship are continuously lying to each other because the very nature of the relationship demands that they do, because you have to make a love object of this person, which means that you editorialize about them. You cut out what you don't want to see, you add this if it isn't there. And so therefore you're building a lie.

  Truman Capote

  Sex, Lying, Cutting

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fighting, Arms, Injustice

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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