| Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 페이지
..."No one can make you feel INFERIOR without your consent." "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it CONCENTRATES his mind wonderfully." (Often recalled as "The prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully. ) "Sir, a woman's preaching... | |
| William M. Chace - 2009 - 365 페이지
...articles and the basis of a book. As Samuel Johnson said, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I concentrated my mind. Slotted into those hours not devoted to learning how to teach or how to be... | |
| David E. Shi - 2007 - 346 페이지
...American economic growth and standards of living. As England's Dr. Johnson once said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The energy crisis certainly caught the attention of the American public. That the postwar era of cheap... | |
| Sandy Macleod - 2007 - 180 페이지
...depression is fundamentally what needs to be determined. Prevalence Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson ( 1709-1 784) 14 The current (1 month) prevalence of major depression in national epidemiological... | |
| Joel J. Orosz - 2007 - 198 페이지
...FREEDOM: BLESSING OR CURSE? Samuel Johnson memorably wrote, "Be dependent on it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Foundation leaders, however, know that they are unlikely ever to be hanged, literally or even figuratively,... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - 2007 - 272 페이지
...confers a special importance on this choice. Samuel Johnson famously remarked that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." What was Ferrers looking for in Hamlet? Perhaps he found a connection between his own circumstance... | |
| Paul Krautmann - 2007 - 218 페이지
...brethren. Eventually, each one of us must walk alone with God. "Depend upon it, sir, when a roan knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," said Samuel Johnson. When trials come, when our life seems to be about over, it is time to walk alone... | |
| 124 페이지
...feel. - Vasantha Surya, "A Word Between Us" 20. Concentration Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. - Samuel Johnson, (Boswell's Life of Johnson) The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative, attainable... | |
| |