Top 100 Quotes About Means To An End
#1. All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention..
Jac Holzman
#2. How are we ever to disarm evil and abolish death as a means to an end?
Elie Wiesel
#3. Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus
Adolf Hitler
#4. 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.
Glynis Nunn
#5. The darkroom is just the means to an end.
Kim Weston
#6. I don't know why, but people tend to look at stand-ups and think they can act, which actually isn't the case. But never mind. I thought: if that's the area where they're looking, then that's the area where I'll put myself - even as a means to an end. And it was.
Catherine Tate
#7. Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.
Eckhart Tolle
#8. Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write this to share simple truths I've learned from some very wise people.
Rick Van Ness
#9. At no point does anyone in the chain know what to do with money in the real economy. But in an indefinite world, people actually prefer unlimited optionality; money is more valuable than anything you could possibly do with it. Only in a definite future is money a means to an end, no the end itself-
Peter Thiel
#10. Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?
Bill Crawford
#11. When people say 'marriage' to me ... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
Lady Gaga
#12. For the first time, I see her. Fucking Sophia. I don't see her as a means to an end - a potential way to take down the bastard who killed my uncle. I see her. I see her as a woman, and she is beautiful.
Callie Hart
#13. Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good ... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
Joseph Goebbels
#14. The money means nothing to me. For that matter, the antique shop means nothing. It's simply a means to an end I want the farm, Stuart. Not for it's monetary value, but for its intrinsic value. It's my home. The only one I've really known, and I'll do anything to keep it." - Alyssa Mccord
Peggy Moreland
#15. Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
Abdullah Ibrahim
#16. Art grabs people by their eyeballs, it seduces them ... art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself.
Eric Drooker
#17. I really didn't mean to hurt him.
But we're all means to an end.
And he was no exception.
Cristiana Di Palma
#18. 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.
Moby
#19. To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
Beth Simone Noveck
#20. Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.
Pope John Paul II
#21. 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.
Jean Chretien
#22. Failure is not an end-it is the means to an end. Study your failures, for they are the scrambled secrets of success.
Romina Russell
#23. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
Jeff Lemire
#26. In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
William Whewell
#27. Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healing power of family relationships.
Joseph A. Micucci
#28. I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
Yves Behar
#29. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#30. 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.
Denis Waitley
#31. More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself.
Joseph Laycock
#32. What is different, and troubling, is that skimming is becoming our dominant mode of reading. Once a means to an end, a way to identify information for deeper study, scanning is becoming an end in itself - our preferred way of gathering and making sense of information of all sorts.
Nicholas Carr
#33. Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
learn how to use time constructively.
It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
Kenneth Wapnick
#34. Writing about our gods in English is unnatural, but I believe language is just a carrier - a means to an end.
Amish Tripathi
#35. To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end.
Thomas Merton
#36. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.
Immanuel Kant
#38. Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
Adolf Hitler
#39. When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#41. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#42. Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.
Paul David Tripp
#43. 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
#44. Money was merely the means to an end. The true root of all evil was selfishness.
Nina Mason
#45. To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it's an end in itself.
Marty Rubin
#46. On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
Edith Stein
#47. 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.
Walter J. Phillips
#48. Success is not an end in itself. It should be a means to an end - happiness. If success does not lead to happiness, it is called "failure".
Murad S. Shah
#49. Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.
Jonathan Turley
#50. How do we professionally manage content? We don't. We shouldn't manage content in the same way that we shouldn't manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.
Gerry McGovern
#51. The field of human relations in Freud's sense is similar to the market - it is an exchange of satisfaction of biologically given needs, in which the relationship to the other individual is always a means to an end but never an end in itself.
Erich Fromm
#52. I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#53. Animals ... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
Immanuel Kant
#54. We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.
Satish Kumar
#55. Being rejected is not the end of your life, it's a means to an end for your life. And that end is your destiny.
Adetokunbo O. Adeoye
#56. Penance is a sacrifice, a voluntary punishment to show remorse for a sin. The more grievous the sin, the greater the self-inflicted suffering. For some, the ultimate penance is death. But for others, it simply a means to an end.
Emily Thorne
#57. The earning of money should be a means to an end; for more than thirty years
I began to support myself at sixteen
I had to regard it as the end itself.
George Gissing
#58. Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.
James Rozoff
#59. What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
#60. Meditation is not a means to an end. Meditation is simply being who you are. Meditation is the rigorous refusal to identify yourself with who you are not.
Yogi Kanna
#61. Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
Ayn Rand
#62. Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
Pope John Paul II
#63. Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.
Nhat Hanh
#64. 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
#65. 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.
Adolf Hitler
#66. 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.
Michelle Shocked
#67. You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.
Michele Cassou
#68. Multinational corporations and a market economy have transformed human beings into instruments of making money. Human beings should be the end. And money should be the means to an end.
Satish Kumar
#69. 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.
Stanley Greenspan
#70. We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.
Swami Vivekananda
#71. Reason is just a means to an end, and the end depends on the reasoner's passions.
Steven Pinker
#72. 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.
Ayn Rand
#73. My teeth clench listening to him talk about her like that, like she's a means to an end. I consider socking him in the balls and then remember he doesn't have any.
Rachel A. Marks
#74. 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.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#75. The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
Jackson Pollock
#76. 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.
Dallin H. Oaks
#77. Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself
Garry Kasparov
#78. Forgetting our objectives. - During the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every profession is chosen and commenced as a means to an end but continued as an end in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1844
Robert Greene
#79. I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
Daniel Barber
#80. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#81. I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.
Alanis Morissette
#82. All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control.
Milton William Cooper
#83. The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
David Brin
#84. Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.
Walt Disney
#85. War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
Norman Finkelstein
#86. Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
Timothy Noah
#87. As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein
#88. Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
Billy Collins
#89. Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David Crystal
#90. The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.
Donald Miller
#91. Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.
Kiersten White
#92. Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
John Galsworthy
#93. There's always more to life than money, Will. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. Annnie Lambert
David Baldacci
#94. Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.
David Baldacci
#95. He wanted to be wanted, not simply be a body used as a means to an end.
Felice Stevens
#96. Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end.
Robert Fripp
#97. Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
Immanuel Kant
#98. I was exposed to the gym at about 28. I never had a huge love or appetite for it - it was just a means to an end.
Brian O'Driscoll
#99. We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.
Francis Chan
#100. It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.
Martin Van Creveld
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