 | Henry S. Kramer - 2001 - 384 sidor
...but not quite as pressing as in the final end game stage. 28O CHAPTER 1 2 THE MID-NEGOTIATION PROCESS "Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." [Dr. Samuel Johnson] Time, along with power and information, are the three key elements in any negotiation.... | |
 | Thomas H. Henriksen - 2001 - 172 sidor
...endangered species. Dr. Samuel Johnson provided a reason more than two hundred years ago: "Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." There was plenty to concentrate the American mind in 1940-41, with the result that we had a grand strategy... | |
 | David E. Shi - 2001 - 354 sidor
...permanent limits to American economic growth and standards of living. As England's Dr. Johnson once said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." The energy crisis certainly caught the attention of the American public. That the postwar era of cheap... | |
 | Walter Laqueur - 2001 - 402 sidor
...fifty. Neither of these people had any experience evading the security organs but, as Dr. Johnson said, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Through German contacts they got advice on where and how to escape. Private Enterprise or Stories of... | |
 | Ian Stevenson, M.D. - 2016 - 355 sidor
...a natural one. Here I am thinking of Dr. Johnson's remark about the execution of Rev. William Dodd: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" (Boswell, 1931/1791, p. 725). Further testimony on this point came from a condemned criminal, who,... | |
 | James F. Toole, Robert J. Joynt - 2001 - 620 sidor
...conference one day, and he suddenly begins to behave in a manifestly loopy fashion. As Dr. Johnson said, "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."* By the same token, an incident of that kind, drawing attention to the hazards of presidential dementia,... | |
 | Gerard W. Hughes - 2001 - 280 sidor
...hypocrites do: they pull long faces to let men know they are fasting. mHttHEUI 6: I. 5. II, "\\Tien a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully," wrote Dr. Johnson. In the early days of Christianity, ashes were placed on the heads of penitents at... | |
 | Stuart Briscoe - 2010 - 773 sidor
...hanging. This phenomenon is similar to the one described by Samuel Johnson, in his famous observation: "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."24 In many instances, the promises to God made in the foxhole have been fulfilled when... | |
 | Brook Thomas - 2002 - 424 sidor
...opens his account of the first day of the trial with another proleptic gesture, quoting Dr. Johnson: "'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully'" (70). Hoskins suggests that the prospect of capital punishment "concentrated the mind not only of the... | |
 | David Weber, Eric Flint - 2002 - 441 sidor
...and the 'historical agenda' has him scheduled for the chopping block. It's like Samuel Johnson said: 'Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be...fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.' Not even Charles is silly enough to let his petty irritation with Wentworth stand in the way of staying... | |
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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. 
