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  • A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

    Mean   Men   Law  
    Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.179, Penguin
  • In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

  • Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

    Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org
  • When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

    Home   Mean   Moments  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

    Mean   Men   Pleasure  
  • The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

    Lying   Mean   Community  
    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

    Mean   Quality   Ends  
    Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.83, Penguin
  • Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started, then you're in there with the punches flying. There's plenty of trouble, but you can handle it. You can't back out. It gets you down once in a while, but it's exciting. Our whole business is exciting.

    Dream   Art   Mean  
    "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.
  • Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.

    Art   Mean   People  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner of putting paint to paper. It hardly embraces the expressive side of painting.

    Mean   Technique   Paper  
  • Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

  • Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

    War   Mean   Men  
  • When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

    Mean   Dating   Feelings  
    "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 09, 2011.
  • Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.

    Real   Mistake   Drama  
  • Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man

    Mean   Men   Ends  
  • I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

  • Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

    "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.
  • We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

    Prayer   Mean   Thinking  
  • I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

    Mean   Guitar   Eric  
  • The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

    Mean   People   Purpose  
  • All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.

  • Don't get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It's an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

    Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.108, New World Library
  • Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

    Country   Mean   Want  
  • Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

    FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017
  • Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.

    Dream   Mean   Goal  
  • Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

    Passion   Writing   Mean  
  • I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

    Mean   Exercise   Light  
    Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people are much less likely to do what you want them to do - for example, to buy the car - when they feel you are reducing them into a means to an end.

    Mean   Car   People  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

    Mean   Foundation   Doe  
    FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from May 15, 2010
  • Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

    Tony Robbins (2007). “Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
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