Means To An End Quotes

We change by changing our consciousness and by saying, money should not be a commodity. Money should be a means to an end.

When I saw music as a means to an end – more fame, more money, dating celebrities – that’s when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it’s really good, it’s just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born – an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity – an end in itself, not a means to an end.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Although pretend play is important, it is still the means to an end, not the end itself. Do not make the mistake of thinking a contrived, pretend drama can substitute for real interpersonal comfort in dealing with important emotional issues.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.

How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Don’t get stuck on the level of words. A word is no more than a means to an end. It’s an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.