 | David L. Larsen - 644 strani
...optimism in each century, particularly the twentieth. 5. 3. 6 JOHNSON, WIZARD OF WORDS Depend upon it, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors; whether I shall add anything by my own writings... | |
 | W. Gifford-Jones - 2000 - 278 strani
...are hellish. But without them writers would never get anything done. As Samuel Johnson once remarked, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." And, recently, I nearly got hanged. In the early morning of Sunday, April 26, 1998, the birds were... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 strani
...life, drawn from all the death which it has wrought. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable*, i, 4 ( 1 862) is When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson, in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (19 September 1777) iv It is far more ignominious... | |
 | David T. Kearns, James Harvey - 2010 - 248 strani
...sir," said Samuel Johnson, the famous eighteenthcentury developer of the first English dictionary, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." For anything short of a hanging, however, most of us are pretty good at denial. We prefer to ignore... | |
 | Stuart Corbridge - 2000 - 400 strani
...bring a nation to its collective senses is the aggregate version of an insight due to Samuel Johnson: '[W]hen a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight. it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The quip seems to apply with equal force to nations in severe crisis. as some of the key cases of radical... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 strani
...aroused an unwonted attention to the immemorial problem of human liberty." According to Dr. Johnson, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The prospect of Hitler's imminent victory concentrated Becker's mind in 1941 in a way that it had not... | |
 | Scott Thorpe - 2000 - 244 strani
...compelling enough, you will not solve your problem. Motivation precedes resolution. Re-size the Problem "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. " -SAMUEL JOHNSON If you have not created sufficient motivation to solve your problem, it may be too... | |
 | Richard Galli - 2001 - 212 strani
...small flake alone — delicate and innocent. But a group — hell bent, JEFFREY GALLI, DECEMBER 1997 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — SAMUEL JOHNSON, FROM JAMES BOSWELL, LIFE OF JOHNSON Prologue I BELIEVE IN A WORLD OF CHANCE, OF... | |
 | Eric Flint, David Drake - 2001 - 321 strani
...told me about in the future that would have been, who made so many fine quips. Dr. Samuel Johnson. "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Chapter 23 THE DECCAN Autumn, 533 AD Rana Sanga kept his eyes firmly fixed on the ivory half-throne... | |
 | Nick Eberstadt, Richard J Ellings - 2001 - 380 strani
...ofSanwelJohnson, cited from a letter from Johnson to Boswcll dated September 19, 1777. The precise quote is: "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." 2. The examples of East Germany and Russia suggest that communist-era assets, when turned loose in... | |
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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 
