| Drayton Bird - Business & Economics - 2007 - 452 pages
...other justification worth mentioning.' Raymond Rubicam Founder, Young & Rubicam Advertising 'When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ' Dr Johnson In 1 957 my situation was bleak. I was making £7.00 a week editing a small trade journal.... | |
| Sandy Macleod - Holistic medicine - 2007 - 180 pages
...medication-responsive 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... | |
| Marvin W. Hunt - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 272 pages
...circumstance 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... | |
| 124 pages
...only mortals 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... | |
| Joseph Gibbs - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 244 pages
...York press — seem contradictory or incoherent, belying Samuel Johnson's famous remark that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Hopson began their March 23 session by telling the prisoner that "I expected all he had told me could... | |
| 218 pages
...your 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... | |
| George Schloss - Religion - 2008 - 405 pages
...explorations for another three or four centuries. Letter 46 - September 1, 2005 "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." So said Dr. Johnson. And so say we all (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), when "faced", as I've been... | |
| Robert Manne - History - 2008 - 306 pages
...problem, but it would be a step forward. WAR ON TERROR Martin Krygier According to Dr Johnson, 'when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' Wondering whether you might be attacked by terrorists seems to have similar, if not always wonderful,... | |
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