Quotes on Method

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

To terrorize a man into believing in God is never the work of God, but the work of human expediency. If we want to convince a congregation of a certain thing, we may use terror to frighten them into it; but never say that is God's way, it is our way. To call that God's method is a travesty to the character of God.

The best methods are those which help the life energy to _x000D_ resume its inner work of healing

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

The genuine history of mankind is the history of ideas. It is _x000D_ ideas that distinguish man from all other beings. Ideas _x000D_ engender social institutions, political changes, technologi- _x000D_ cal methods of production, and all that is called economic _x000D_ conditions.

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution _x000D_ A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it _x000D_ And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built _x000D_ And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods _x000D_ And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are _x000D_ As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

What I do instead is I will cheerfully spend literally hours on identifier names: variable names, method names, and so forth, to make my code readable. If you read some expression using these identifiers and it reads like an English sentence, your program is much more likely to be correct, and much easier to maintain.

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others