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Quotes About Method

Martin didn't attack statements like that with emotion. He preferred what he liked to call a Sarcratic approach—a sarcastic version of the Socratic method.
~ Patrick Lencioni
What is technology? It's technique. It's the way we all do things. And when you discover a new way to do things, its value is multiplied by all the people who use it.
~ Paul Graham
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
~ William Osler
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
~ Claude Monet
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
~ Josef Albers
Today we still call the standard method of achieving secrecy in voting in elections the Australian ballot. The
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of.
~ Dashiell Hammett
The best means to an end are not always those that appear most direct.
~ David Brin
At a simple syntactical level, the then() method is the distinctive feature of Promises, and it is idiomatic to append .then() directly to the function invocation that returns the Promise, without the intermediate step of assigning the Promise object to a variable.
~ Unknown
Chesterton above is wrong in one respect. Or at least imprecise. The danger he's trying to name is not logic. Logic is just a method, and methods can't unhinge people. What Chesterton's really trying to talk about is one of logic's main characteristics—and mathematics'. Abstractness. Abstraction.
~ David Foster Wallace
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
~ William Shakespeare
Where lies your text? Viola: In Orsino's bosom. Olivia: In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? Viola: To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
~ William Shakespeare
In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom? In his heart? In what chapter and verse of his heart? VIOLA (200) To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. To continue this metaphor—in the first chapter of his heart. OLIVIA Oh, I have read it. It is heresy. Have you no more to say? Oh, I have read that. It's not a holy message, it's heresy. Do you
~ William Shakespeare
high standards of experience, of official routine, and of method, which are the qualifications of the Civil Service.
~ Winston S. Churchill
One specimen of this method will suffice: It is reasonably certain that a petty chieftain named Arthur did exist, probably in South Wales. It is possible that he may have held some military command uniting the tribal forces of the Celtic or highland zone or part of it against raiders and invaders (not all of them necessarily Teutonic). It is also possible that he may have engaged in all or some of the battles attributed to him; on the other hand, this attribution may belong to a later date.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Her preference was to go by pistol shot, mine by placing my head in the dishwasher and pressing Full Cycle.
~ Woody Allen
Natural Method of Physical Training: Making Muscle and Reducing Flesh Without Dieting or Apparatus. Critics' reactions were weird and rather frenzied: everyone loved it, without knowing exactly what it was.
~ Christopher McDougall
The scientific method, I think, is the highest philosophical height that mankind has ever produced. It seeks constantly to disprove itself. What other philosophy is there that does that?
~ Christopher Nolan
I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.
~ Clarice Lispector
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
~ Claude Bernard
if you want to understand what a science is, you should look in the first in­stance not at its theories or its findings, and certainly not at what its apologists say about it; you should look at what the practitioners of it do.
~ Clifford Geertz
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
~ Herbert Read
the plan of salvation in the Christian religion determines the method of Christian theology.
~ Herman Bavinck
Gary's seemingly random, circuitous method actually has an underlying logic. But this test-and-learn approach flies in the face of the more traditional method, the
~ Herminia Ibarra