Method Quotes
1671 quotes by 1198 authors
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying…
— Bertolt Brecht
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To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this…
— Corliss Lamont
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Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its…
— Corliss Lamont
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Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it…
— Karl Popper
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[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life…
— Gerry Spence
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Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the voice, picking up…
— Enrico Caruso
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You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human…
— Clarence Darrow
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Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score…
— Larry Ellison
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Search, a marketing method that didn't exist a decade ago, provides the most efficient and inexpensive way for businesses to find leads.
— John Battelle
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We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous…
— Mary Parker Follett
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There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.
— Winston Churchill
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Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of…
— Camillo Golgi
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Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which…
— Edward Bernays
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Those who devise better methods of utilizing manpower, tools, machinery, materials and facilities are making real contributions toward our national security. Today, these ideas are…
— Robert R. Shannon
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain,…
— John Coltrane
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Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the…
— Vsevolod Pudovkin
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My message to the serious programmer is this: spend a part of your working day examining and refining your own methods. Even though programmers are…
— Robert W. Floyd
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