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Quotes About Methods

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.
~ Elizabeth Kenny
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
~ Edward Thorndike
Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.
~ Joe Haldeman
Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
One big-brained branch of these mammals, that which we call primates, evolved a genus and species (Homo sapiens) with sufficient intelligence to invent methods and tools of science—and to deduce the origin and evolution of the universe.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
When a newly acquired State has been accustomed, as I have said, to live under its own laws and in freedom, there are three methods whereby it may be held. The first is to destroy it; the second, to go and reside there in person; the third, to suffer it to live on under its own laws, subjecting it to a tribute, and entrusting its government to a few of the inhabitants who will keep the rest your friends
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When they're weighing up what someone has achieved - and this is particularly true with rulers, who can't be held to account - people look at the end result. So if a leader does what it takes to win power and keep it, his methods will always be reckoned honourable and widely praised. The crowd is won over by appearances and final results. And the world is all crowd: the dissenting few find no space so long as the majority have any grounds at all for their opinions.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
appears to have produced substantial tax revenue.26 One St. Petersburg city council member fumed that the scheme utilized "secret service methods" to extract payments.27 True: that was the point.
~ Chris Miller
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.
~ Victor Hugo
They passed a small dark-haired woman wearing spectacles who paced as she dictated to another woman, who was typing. "We cannot allow the rich to get richer while the poor get poorer. How can we call ourselves the land of the free when people are living on the streets and dying of hunger? Radical change requires radical methods…
~ Kristin Hannah
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~ Kurt Russell
Here in the United States, the words "sleep training" are as controversial and brimming with emotion as "breast-feeding." Or
~ Catherine Crawford
Grant us the truth in creed, in trade and state, The truth in systems, methods, laws, innate, Falsehoods, illusions, myths may sound more sweet, Fallacious, false, framed but to dupe and cheat. The weak may hug a lie and call it good, Yet truth is right, when fully understood.
~ Lydia Platt Richards
This information in turn greatly influenced our understanding of Genghis Khan's field methods and how he treated hostile civilians as animals to be herded but hostile soldiers as game to be hunted.
~ Jack Weatherford
To be sure, in some instances these proceedings have been unconstitutional, but we must remember that it is not the first time since a war that there have been changes in governments by such methods.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
I was using very unconventional methods to sequence the telemetric DNA, originally.
~ Elizabeth Blackburn
I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.
~ Angus Deaton
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
~ Derek Bok
Unfortunately it makes the unambiguous determination of triplets by these methods much more difficult than would be the case if there were only one triplet for each amino acid.
~ Francis Crick
Do not use worldly methods or apply human force to prevent sin
~ Sunday Adelaja
I've worked with some brilliant coaches, and I've taken a real interest in all the methods they use and the choices they make. And I can tell you that Moyes's sessions and the things he says in his team meetings are spot on.
~ Robin Van Persie
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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson