...DISCIPLINE: FOUNDATION FREEDOM: BLESSING OR CURSE? Samuel Johnson memorably wrote, "Be dependent on it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Foundation leaders, however, know that they are unlikely ever to be hanged, literally or even figuratively,...

...1 New York press — 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...

...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....

...extraordinary circumstance confers a special importance on this choice. Samuel Johnson famously remarked that "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." What was Ferrers looking for in Hamlet? Perhaps he found a connection between his own circumstance...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...hundred pounds in his pocket, ready to be paid to any of the turnkeys who could get him out: but i Young. it was too late; for he was watched with much circumspection....pass as his own, while that could do him any good, there was an implied promise that I should not own it. To own it, therefore, would have been telling...

...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...