Method Quotes - Page 11

• God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Time, Men, Giving

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• I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results

  Milton Friedman

  Independent, Political, Important

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• Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Would Be, Done

  Letters to His Son, 16 Oct. 1747

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• Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

  Roderick E. Stevens

  Success, Essentials, Individual

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• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

  Horatio Dresser

  Self, Quiet, Unnecessary

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• Sell-sell-sell sales methods simply do not work on social media.

  Kim Garst

  Media, Marketing, Social

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• CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spiritual, Men, Affair

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  Eric Ries

  Quality Goods, Progress, Soil

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• Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  Richard Preston

  Cutting, Practice, People

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• By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

  Francis Collins

  Religious, Scientific Method, Logical

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• The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

  Paulo Freire

  Manipulation, Individual, Appetite

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

  Charles Fourier

  Civilization, Doubt, Excellence

  "The Social Destiny of Man: Or, Theory of the Four Movements".

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• My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

  George Polya

  Overcoming, Difficulty, Rounds

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions.  If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

  Vernon Howard

  Perfect, Needs, Awakening

  "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". Book by V. A. Howard, 1967.

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• The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

  John Burroughs

  Incredibles, Christianity, Insight

  John Burroughs (1900). “The Light of Day: Religious Discussions and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of View”

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• When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

  Chuck Close

  Art, Thinking, Air

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• Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods.

  Jacque Fresco

  Essentials, Connections, Academia

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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• Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Teacher, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "Muqaddimah" translated by Franz Rosenthal, Princeton University Press, 1981.

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• I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

  Aleister Crowley

  Regret, Father, Mean

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 66, 1969.

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Goal, Management, Nonsense

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• An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.

  George Polya

  Math, Ideas, Used

  "Problems and Theorems in Analysis I: Series. Integral Calculus. Theory of Functions".

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