...For once Roosevelt's always restless energies were concentrated fully. Samuel Johnson said famously, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." So too charging into gunfire. Would Roosevelt's mind ever again be so wonderfully concentrated? Would...

...has no 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....

...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...

...of Pierre de Wiessant, One of the Burghers of Calais 1886 "Depend upon it. Sir, when a man knows lie is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." — Samuel Johnson Separate studies of the burghers' heads and hands became independent sculptures,...

...can improve the quality of belief formation, by focusing attention and stimulating the imagination. "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight," Dr. Johnson said, "it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Beyond a certain level of arousal, however,...

...be sentenced to our explorations for another three or four centuries. Letter 46 - September 1, 2005 "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...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...

...this 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,...