Modus Operandi Quotes

• Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

  Annie Lennox

  Inspirational, Change, Kindness

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• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Ukulele, Actors, Theater

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• It's indispensable to fully understand the basis and modus operandi of the Law of Karma to orientate the ship of our life in a positive and exemplary way.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Karma, Law, Way

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• Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
  Consider the Empire and Gandhi.

  Ogden Nash

  Empires, Provoking, Passivity

  Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library

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• Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.

  Jon Stewart

  Creating, Body, Foxes

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• In my view, The Temple of Man is the most important work of scholarship of this century. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz finally proves the existence of the legendary 'sacred science' of the Ancients and systematically demonstrates its modus operandi. It was this great science-based upon an intimate and exact knowledge of cosmic principles-that fused art, religion, science, and philosophy into one coherent whole and sustained Ancient Egypt for three thousand years.

  John Anthony West

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression or consciousness or we'll realize ants are smarter than people.

  Scott McClanahan

  Believe, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

  Ben Watt

  Pops, Understatement

  Source: thequietus.com

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• For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

  Zoë Heller

  Honesty, People, Departure

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• People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

  H. L. Mencken

  Cheating, Honesty, Lying

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• My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.

  Peter Menzel

  Jobs, Self, Done

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• There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Important, Use

  BuzzFlash interview, September 11, 2003.

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• Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.

  D. V. Ager

  Science, Long, Boredom

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Fall, Frustration

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• Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

  Dale Spender

  Communication, Mean, Media

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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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• My modus operandi hasn't really changed that much from when I was an English teacher. I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Jobs, Reading

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• Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.

  Steve Coogan

  Phones, Tabloids, Hacking

  "Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 05, 2011.

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