Lean And Mean Quotes

#1. We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#2. I want my list of works to be lean and mean and everything was urgent and had to be done. Nothing to play the market. My family's had to suffer for that, that I haven't done commercial jobs just to bring home the bacon.

Josh Alan Friedman

#3. Downturns are the best time to start businesses, because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

Kevin O'Leary

#4. Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

Vandana Shiva

#5. Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Jim Rogers

#6. I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

John Cale

#7. So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

Richard M. Nixon

#8. It's good to have a fear of heights. I mean, it's kind of crazy not to because if you just lean out a little bit and there's a gust of wind or somebody bumps you or something and you fall, you're splat.

Chris Hadfield

#9. Sometimes it felt like no one was ever there for her. Everyone thought she was so strong. And she was, for the most part. But that didn't mean she never needed anyone to lean on.

Michelle Madow

#10. As an actress and just as a person, I've kind of been in a little bit of a bubble. So it was so great for me to see where I could go as an actress and to be around incredible people who are much more experienced than I am, like Harmony [Korine], James [Franco], and Vanessa [Hudgens].

Selena Gomez

#11. He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

Mary Renault

#12. I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

Tommy Bolt

#13. You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big.

Albert Mohler

#14. Who could be angry while laughing and wearing a shirt covered in cum?

Anonymous

#15. To listen is to continually give up all expectation and to give our attention, completely and freshly, to what is before us, not really knowing what we will hear or what that will mean. In the practice of our days, to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Mark Nepo

#16. I've tended to lean more toward the Dalai Lama and people like Russell Means who have been my political and spiritual North Stars, but I certainly regard Nelson Mandela with great respect and humility.

Ian Astbury

#17. I lean back. "What the hell are you doing?"
"What do you mean?" she asks, innocently batting her eyelashes against the hot sun beaming down on us.
Is she kidding me?
"Where's you toungue?" I ask stupidly.
Her wet little eyebrows furrow. "In my mouth. Why, where's it supposed to be?

Simone Elkeles

#18. I'll see you tomorrow, then, around seven,' concluded Clara. 'Do you know the address?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#19. Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Gottfried Leibniz

#20. What if they were all playing the same part? What if each and every one of them was concealing the same doubts, none of them talking because they all felt so completely alone?

Hugh Howey

#21. The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

William Kingdon Clifford

#22. If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

Trent Reznor

#23. With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

David Zinczenko

#24. Well, you did it," I congratulated Patch. "I'm as trained as I'll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you my personal trainer from day one."
A rogue smile surfaced, slow and wicked. " No match for Patch.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#25. I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.

Edwin Moses

#26. In some African tribes, this would make us married," a dry male voice returned. Angel looked up. His arms reflexively gripping her waist, a tall, lean man with windswept black hair looked down at her with amused emerald eyes. "In others, it would mean we're being prepared for supper

Suzanne Enoch

#27. I don't like movies that are shot on green screen much, you know. I mean, I know that's the thing to do, and I know that it's getting. I'll put it this way; David Lean would probably kill himself, you know, again if he knew that people were watching Lawrence of Arabia on a telephone.

Billy Bob Thornton

#28. My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#29. Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Mike Ditka

#30. I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.

Stephen Sondheim

#31. And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.

J.D. Salinger

#32. With respect to the situation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, in both countries the Soviet Union had been working hard to create an infrastructure of those who shared their point of view and were prepared to take over the countries.

Paul Nitze

#33. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.

Chelsea Handler

#35. "Do not lean on your own understanding." That means don't bring in the crutches and lean on them, those crutches that you have designed and made to handle such situations. Stay away from them. Don't lean on them; lean on God.

Charles R. Swindoll

#36. Her voice is thin and her moan is high,
And her cackling laugh or her barking cold
Bring terror to the young and old.
O Molly, Molly, Molly Means
Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.

Margaret Walker

#37. Being able to lean on someone else . . . maybe that was brave. I mean, if you leaned on someone, you had to trust that they wouldn't let you fall.

Holly Jacobs

#38. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ...
and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau

#39. Sustainability at Nike means being laser-focused on evolving our business model to deliver profitable growth while leveraging the efficiencies of lean manufacturing, minimizing our environmental impact and using the tools available to us to bring about positive change across our entire supply chain.

Mark Parker