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“Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.”

Should Use Lines Opinion Technology Worst Approach All Time Code Software Metrics Malpractice

Book:Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality

Source: Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality

“For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.”

Ifs May Loses Lines Study Military Balance Approach Aspect Sight Strategy Resistance Psychological Appeals Opponents Indirect Obviousness

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Past Lines Approach First Time New Ideas Recurrence

Author:Robert Hass

“However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.”

Ifs Doe Lines Approach Obligation Variance

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?”

May Soul Lines Possibility Approach Draws Standards Perfection Eternity Creator Mathematical Touching Perpetual

Book:Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

Source: Essays, Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.”

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Author:Keith Michael

“As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.”

Lines Society Higher Mountain Approach Court Circles Climbs Apathy Perpetual Frigidity

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.”

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Author:Lewis Schiff

“He batted against spitballs, shineballs, emeryballs and all the other trick deliveries. He never figured anything out or studied anything with the same scientific approach I gave it. He just swung. If he'd ever had any knowledge of batting, his average would have been phenomenal. ... he seemed content to just punch the ball, and I can still see those line drives whistling to the far precincts. Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Stills I Can Play Lines Approach Baseball Balls Harder Average Tricks Delivery Phenomenal Batting Whistling

Author:Ty Cobb

“Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Sometimes Actors Sound Lines Approach Smart Percent Sells Coming Out Gears Like Something

Author:David Gordon Green

“You've got to listen to your body, notice some trends in yourself and do the best you can to be ready when a finish line approaches.”

Body Lines Ready Approach Your Body Trends Do The Best Finish Line

Author:Chael Sonnen

“I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.”

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Author:Nick Zinner

“I've gotten stronger, but I don't ever try to hit home runs. I stay with the same approach, just hit line drives. If you get under one and it goes out, it's a home run, but I don't feel any pressure to hit home runs.”

Ifs Feels Trying Home Running Lines Approach Stronger Pressure Home Run

Author:Ryan Zimmerman

“Those who were still able to write beautiful melodies were kitsch composers like Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky approaches true art not in his numerous beautiful melodies, but when a melodic line is thwarted.”

Writing Art Stills Able Beautiful Lines Approach Melody Composer Kitsch Tchaikovsky

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.”

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.”

Trying Lines Acting Approach Screens Crafts Just Saying

Author:Aneurin Barnard

“So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think, "That would never make me cry. Those lines are so untruthful." My approach is just to be honest to the situation.”

Thinking Character Lines Situation Honest Cry Approach Scripts Being Honest

Author:Shailene Woodley

“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!”

“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.”

“Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.”

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Author:Dan Millman

“There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.”

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Author:Roger Ailes

“The theory of the indirect approach operates on the line of least expectation.”

Lines Theory Approach Expectations Indirect

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton's positions are far more in line with the German National Socialism approach than Trump could even dream of being.”

Dream Lines Position Trump Approach Clinton Socialism

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"”

Ifs Should Kind May Certain Easy Growth Lines Plans Economic Approach Okay Harder Crisis Luck Entrepreneur Conservative Extras Revenue Good Luck Unstable Bad Luck Economic Crisis Extra Time

Author:Reid Hoffman

“Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.”

Thinking Play Seems Form Lines Demand Approach Settling Length Formal Formation Revision Drafting

Author:Allison Joseph

“As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization.”

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