 | S. George Philander - 2004 - 296 pages
...public's considerable investment in science by quoting Samuel Johnson in a threatening tone: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Today there is enormous pressure on scientists to do research that is useful, to predict El Nino for... | |
 | John Lewis Gaddis - 2005 - 164 pages
...what we might call the Dr. Samuel Johnson Test: "Depend on it, Sir," the great man once commented, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* Despite a significantly altered strategic landscape, dangers before December 7, 1941, were not convincingly... | |
 | Erik Owens, John D. Carlson, Eric P. Elshtain - 2004 - 322 pages
...of change of heart. Here the picture is quite different. "Depend upon it, Sir," said Samuel lohnson, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."1 Indeed there may be many criminals for whom nothing else concentrates the mind enough.... | |
 | John Macdonald - 2004 - 264 pages
...Why do you work for your present company? Chapter 10 Focus Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes... | |
 | Lawrence Goldie, Jane Desmarais, Jane Haville Desmarais - 2005 - 180 pages
...force of mind in it than anything known to be his, Dr Johnson responded, 'Why should you think so? Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully'.7 All the soldiers writing hoped that their life would contribute to making the world... | |
 | Gavin Cologne-Brookes - 2009 - 297 pages
...solutions, where available, are not necessarily desirable. The epigraph (Samuel Johnson's famous dictum that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully") suggests that the fact of death should focus our minds on how to live. The dogged pursuit of insoluble... | |
 | Peter Kreeft - 2005 - 244 pages
...quotation of the most quoted man (besides Shakespeare) in English literature, Doctor Johnson, reads: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." (Watch the movie Dead Man Walking with this point in mind, and you may see a serious argument for capital... | |
 | William Olivier Desmond, Fabrice Antoine - 2005 - 160 pages
...le lecteur français de culture moyenne peut comprendre immédiatement. Si on lit, en revanche, "... when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," vous ne saurez peut-être pas que c'est une citation, célèbre en Angleterre, de Samuel Johnson. Vous... | |
 | William M. Chace - 2009 - 365 pages
...think of my dissertation as a quarry for articles and the basis of a book. As Samuel Johnson said, "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...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... | |
 | Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...Boswell, what Johnson said, with reference to the unusually vigorous writing of a condemned forger, was "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Verdict: Credit Samuel Johnson for the thought, and his version of the words. "CONSISTENCY is the hobgoblin... | |
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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. 
