 | Joseph Gibbs - 2007 - 244 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Drayton Bird - 2007 - 452 σελίδες
...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.... | |
 | David Gessner - 2007 - 322 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Robert Manne - 2008 - 306 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | George Schloss - 2008 - 405 σελίδες
...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... | |
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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. 
