“Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers are also twice as likely to visit a branch as their primary transaction method, which contributes to higher overall satisfaction levels. Multiple convenient locations and extended operating hours in supermarkets positively increase customer perceptions of convenience for Downey.” HoursLevelsHigherPerceptionAreasIncreaseMethodSatisfactionCustomersFocusedSavingPrimariesCaliforniaRelatedBranchesMultipleLocationLoanPositivelyConvenienceSavingsConvenientRatingTransactionsSupermarkets Author:Jeffery Taylor
“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.” ArtArtistPaintingMastersAreasMethodTechniqueContemporaryEaseAbstractCompetenceRenaissanceAbstract Painting Author:Igor Babailov
“After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.” WayYearsImportantDifferentDoneSocialNaturalStudyAreasMethodScientific MethodSocial ScienceNatural Science Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis
“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.” DoneProblemGovernmentPoliticalValuesTakenIgnoranceStrangeAreasRootsMethodInstitutionsEducationalAccomplishArrangementsThings DoneStrange ThingsIlliteracyGreat ValueThoughtlessness Author:Richard Mitchell
“In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.” PeopleWorldWayIdeasRealCultureAreasMethodDetermineIdeologyReal WorldDisagreePersistCompetingRobustScientific MethodConflicting Ideas Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.” PeopleWayTryingArtProcessVisionImagineSurvivalAreasConcernMethodDancePracticalsPrimariesDancerCollectivesGroundedProspects Author:Anna Halprin