Methods Quotes

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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends. — Ambrose Bierce
The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods… — John Dewey
Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through… — Philip E. Agre
Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the… — William O. Douglas
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractableâ€”from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy,… — Vinod Khosla
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate… — Tony Dungy
The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character. — Joel Spencer
What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related?… — Tony Hoare
...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that… — Donald Knuth
We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,… — Antoine Lavoisier
Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be… — David Parnas
Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put… — Scott Adams
No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes. — Myles Munroe
EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading… — Morihei Ueshiba
Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in… — Ruth Stafford Peale
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students… — William Z. Foster
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding. — Edsger Dijkstra
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to… — Ambrose Bierce

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