quotes about Method
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Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
-- Akhenaton -
Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
-- Albert LowSource : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
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We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
-- Alexis Carrel -
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
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Stalin's methods did not help.
-- Anastas MikoyanSource : "One Man Alone: Richard Nixon" by Ralph de Toledano, (p. 243), 1969.
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I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Languages are true analytical methods.
-- Antoine LavoisierSource : "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.
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A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
-- Arnold Bennett -
There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
-- Arnold Bennett -
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.
-- Ashur -
I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.
-- August Wilhelm von Hofmann -
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
-- Ayn Rand -
Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.
-- Barbara Mertz -
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
-- Barry Commoner -
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
-- Blaise Pascal -
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The Marxist outlook ... represents the most consistent and systematic application of the scientific outlook and method.
-- Bob Avakian -
I am really Method-y.
-- Breckin MeyerSource : "Anna Paquin, Breckin Meyer Talk 'Blue State,' Why 'Garfield' Saga Isn't Over". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. May 1, 2007.
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People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.
-- Brother Lawrence -
The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
-- Celia GreenSource : "The decline and fall of science". Book by Celia Elizabeth Green, 1976.
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Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
-- Charles Kettering -
Methods are the masters of masters.
-- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common...
-- Charley Reese -
My method is to find a word with a gesture.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
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Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly
-- Claude C. Hopkins -
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
-- Claude Monet -
However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.
-- Claudio Hummes -
To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
-- Cornelius Van Til -
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Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
-- David Bentley Hart -
I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.
-- David Copperfield -
Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.
-- Dmitry MedvedevSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
-- Donald KnuthSource : Donald E. Knuth (2014). “Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms”, p.25, Addison-Wesley Professional
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
-- Ed AsnerSource : "Interview: Ed Asner of ‘The Gathering’ (and ‘Up’)". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 22, 2009.
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Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
-- Edward Hopper -
Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
-- Edward Hopper -
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
-- Edward Tufte -
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Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.
-- Edwin Land -
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
-- Elizabeth HawesSource : Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”
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All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.
-- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
-- Elvis Costello -
The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.
-- Eric Ries -
The business and method of mysticism is love.
-- Evelyn Underhill -
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
-- Francis Crick -
There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
-- Frantz Fanon -
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
-- Frederik Pohl -
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.
-- George Polya -
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
-- Georges SeuratSource : Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt, Georges Seurat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2009). “Georges Seurat: figure in space”, Hatje Cantz Pub
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Practicing Dharma is the supreme method for improving the quality of our human life.
-- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso -
Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.
-- Greg Koukl -
In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.
-- Hans Arp -
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Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
-- Harry Lloyd -
Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.
-- Hayden Christensen -
We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of being taken prisoner by the Russians.
-- Heinrich MullerSource : "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis". Book by Richard Breitman, 2004.
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Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
-- Henry Ford -
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
-- Herman Melville -
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
-- Hermann Hesse -
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
-- Jacques Barzun -
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Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.
-- Jamais Cascio -
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
-- James Cash Penney -
Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.
-- James Richardson -
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
-- James Thurber -
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I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.
-- Joan Rivers -
The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.
-- Joel Spencer -
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.
-- John Burroughs -
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I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.
-- John le Carre -
I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
-- John O. BrennanSource : "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number– there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.
-- John von Neumann -
Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.
-- John Wooden -
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Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.
-- Joseph Stiglitz -
Whenever the method of Worship Becomes more Important than the Person of Worship, We have already prostituted Our Worship.
-- Judson Cornwall -
That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .
-- Julia Kristeva -
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
-- Karl PearsonSource : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.
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The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade...
-- Katharine GrahamSource : Katharine Graham (1998). “Personal History”, Vintage Books
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I'm not a method actress.
-- Khandi AlexanderSource : Source: collider.com
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I wasn’t getting obliterated, but I was getting a kick. I was very method on that. That’s why I’d have gone along with it [if Tom had hit her]. But Tom was like: ‘Oh my God – I hope you don’t murder me!’
-- Kierston Wareing -
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
-- Konrad Adenauer -
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Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.
-- Lee Lozowick -
Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
-- Leslie Fiedler -
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
-- Lord Acton -
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Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
-- Louise Fresco -
For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
-- Margaret Cavendish -
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods
-- Margaret Chase Smith -