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“New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.”

Challenges Materials Demand Method Conventions Fling Methodology

Author:Lawren Harris

“Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.”

People Trying Mind May Spirit Challenges Teacher Figures Method Intellect Enlightened Good Teacher Recommendations Socratic

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Parking Reform Made Easy provides both a theoretical framework and practical methods for reforming parking requirements. By giving planners a sound basis for developing reforms, Richard Willson remedies the problem that many planners feel unqualified to challenge and change long-standing minimum parking requirements.”

Giving Feels Long Made Problem Easy Sound Challenges Standing Bases Method Practicals Reform Developing Remedy Minimum Requirements Framework Theoretical Parking Planners Unqualified

Author:Donald Shoup

“The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?”

Challenges Method Assumption Prevailing Strategist

Book:The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

Source: The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business

“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.”

Soul Challenges Style Method Cooking Technique Traditional Cooks Dishes

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.”

Ifs Years Made Speak Challenges Differences Hard Work Fame Succeed Harder Method Fortune Come Up Dare Prime Work Harder

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.”

People Way Stories Shows Form Term Challenges Impossible Produce Strange Exciting Theater Method Musical Caught These Days Caught Up Musical Theater

Author:Nick Blaemire

“Historically, many of the great names in alpine climbing seemed to have just gone climbing as training. In fact, the model alpinist has often portrayed himself in literature as a half-crazed nonconformist, living life on the edge every moment he's sober enough to climb. It is true that amazing feats of skill and daring have been accomplished using this rather random approach. For some climbers that "life on the edge" approach may be the only way they can accomplish these feats, but there are far better methods to prepare for the challenges of alpine climbing.”

“The invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked. If it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that.”

“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.”

Thinking Giving Mind Believe Ends Reason Challenges Results Practice Example Argument Universal Philosophical Originals Method

Book:Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

Source: Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

“The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.”

Might Science Felt Challenges Method Impact Domain Geometry Exaggeration Axioms Copernicus

Author:Eric Temple Bell