Means Problem Quote by Nat Greene

“Clear your mind of prejudices and assumptions, and look to define the problem as something you can objectively measure to determine whether the problem…

— Nat Greene

“Standards are just the most accepted ways of doing things. They're usually unquestioned, not challenged, not the most efficient, and not the best way…

— Rick Otton

“Definitions create conditions.”

— Alfred Korzybski

“using other people’s standards is a highly persuasive way to achieve your goals.”

— Stuart Diamond

“Perhaps the most useful approach for defining the problem well is structuring it as a measurable variable.”

— Nat Greene

“Acceptance of the unacceptable is common within society.”

— Steven Redhead

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

— Celia Green

“To condescend effectively it is clearly necessary to adhere to a narrow definition of relevant data.”

— Marilynne Robinson

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right…

— Leo Strauss

“The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“Here is the broader point: whatever problem you're trying to solve, make sure you're not just attacking the noisy part of the problem that…

— Steven D. Levitt

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

— William Greider