Means To An End Quotes

• 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

  Spiritual, Mean, Love Is

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• 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

  Meaningful, Moving, Goal

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Compassion, People

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• 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

  Love, Christian, Mean

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

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Independence, Minnie Mouse

  "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.

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Mean, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel - only a means to an end.

  Henry Ford

  Running, Money, Mean

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• 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.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Being Yourself, Mean

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mean, Eugenics, Democracy

  "Basic Approach," repr. in Vincent Shean Nehru: the Years of Power (1960) p. 294

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• Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

  Robert Redford

  Confused, Mean, Independent

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• 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

  War, Mean, Fighting

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is not a means to an end but a series of experiences. Are you creating your series 'on purpose' ?

  Bill Crawford

  Mean, Creating, Purpose

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• 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

  Mean, Humanity, Way

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• Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Humanity, Use

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• When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be a quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Winning, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.159, Penguin

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• War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Mean, Hiatus

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

  Jac Holzman

  Mean, Technology, Attention

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• When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Self, Joy

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• 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

  Teaching, Mean, Miracle

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• My advice to any budding artist is never to be satisfied with imitating others. This is but a means to an end. A serious artist will work with intensity to discover themselves, their own personal vision. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of the creative path.

  Michael Kenna

  Believe, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Community

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money is both a means and a means to an end.

  Emme

  Money, Mean, Ends

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• 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

  Mean, Technology, Government

  "Beth Simone Noveck, Former U.S Deputy Chief Technology Officer, On The Tech Trends That Worry Her Most". Interview with Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 19, 2011.

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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.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.179, Penguin

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