Method Quotes

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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
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better… — W. Edwards Deming
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel de Montaigne
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies… — Anthony Minghella
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds… — Roger Bacon
Scientific method: There's a madness in the method. — Edward Abbey
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. — Edward Abbey
Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to… — Mercy Otis Warren
The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw… — George Washington
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud
Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking… — Margaret Sanger
Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of… — Margaret Sanger
Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted… — Margaret Sanger
It is better to have a bad method than to have none. — Charles de Gaulle
This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on… — R.K. Narayan
People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren't socially acceptable to some, but it's what I have… — Jimmy Connors
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. Itâ€™s very easy to disguise a… — Ronald Reagan
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… — John von Neumann

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