 | John A. Flower - Education - 2003 - 396 pages
...could be sued personally. This had an effect similar to that described by Dr. Samuel Johnson, who said, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Meanwhile the judges on the bench of the Tenth Circuit in Denver, after reconsidering the Adarand case,... | |
 | David Weber - Fiction - 2003 - 392 pages
...and laid-back, and pleasant to deal with. But now he was working an average of eighteen hours a day. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Granted, Yuri Radamacher had more than a fortnight at his disposal. But how much more, remained to... | |
 | Jim Denney, James D. Denney - Business & Economics - 2003 - 252 pages
...intensity and discipline he had developed as a man under a death sentence. As Samuel Johnson once said, "Depend upon it, sir — when a man knows he is to...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Whether or not we have received bad news from the doctor, we should write as if our lives depend on... | |
 | Gordon Sheppard - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 864 pages
...Exciting? In what sense? SHEPPARD: As Samuel Johnson said, speaking of a prisoner condemned to die, "Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." I imagine the same thing applies to you with regard to Hubert: since he had declared he was going to... | |
 | Roy Orville Williams, Vic Preisser - Business & Economics - 2003 - 208 pages
...numbers has had a surprising impact on heirs and benefactors. As Samuel Johnson once wrote: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."20 Not that a hanging is in store, but the reality of planned responsibility (as a steward... | |
 | Geoffrey Cooper - College student orientation - 2003 - 155 pages
...spend some time planning my written answers. Q Introduction Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows that he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully (Dr Samuel Johnson). Most students dislike exams yet universities persist with the timehonoured end-of-unit... | |
 | S. George Philander - Nature - 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 - History - 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 - History - 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 - Business & Economics - 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... | |
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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. 
