5,159 Quotes About Mean

We British say "to put the world to rights." I've discovered that that's not the way Americans say it and people scratch their heads and say, "Funny... what does he mean by that?" It means to fix the thing, to make it all better again.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings, or future fears. None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?

Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.