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Mean Quotes by Nathaniel Branden
- It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so…
- To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability,…
- Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.
- Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
- Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial…
- It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence…
- The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government,…
- When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are…
- The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It…
- For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage…
- Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins.…
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams