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“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.”

Ifs Want Ends Wanted Boys Involved Method Hearing Operations Posters Parkinson Parkinson's

Author:Michael J. Fox

“We have reached the end of problem solving as a mode of inquiry capable of inspiring, mobilizing, and sustaining human system change. The future of Organization Development belongs to methods that affirm, compel, and accelerate anticipatory learning involving larger and larger levels of collectivity.”

Humans Ends Problem Levels Development Capable Organization Method Problem Solving Inquiry Involving Sustaining Accelerate Collectivity Systems Change

Author:David Cooperrider

“Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.”

Thinking May Book Ends Use Reading Study Method Library Aids Literacy Librarian Propose

Author:Edward Gibbon

“The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”

Doe Ends Use Feelings Law Used Turns Liberty Police Method Criminals Illegal Rooted Confession Inherent Involuntary Convicts Abhorrence

Author:Earl Warren

“Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.”

Way Mean Ends States Greatness Police Method Threat Criminals Unlimited Coercion Police State Pragmatism Premium Prosecution

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.”

Ifs World Ends Facts Literature Given Effects Method Democratic Our World Traffic Ecology End Times Galaxy Garbage Jam Greenhouses Velocity Untouchables Traffic Jam Garbage Disposal

Author:Jose Saramago

“The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.”

Ifs Needs Wells Doe Ends Facts Stories Views Moral Wise Style Deserve Method Ill Seeking Historian Truthful Maxims Narration

Book:The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

Source: The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between Governments. The once powerful malignant Nazi state is crumbling; the Japanese warlords are receiving in their homelands the retribution for which they asked when they attacked Pearl Harbor. But the mere conquest of our enemies is not enough; we must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.”

“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”

“Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.”

People Writing Trying Ends Groups Advantage Method Sentences Collaboration Efficient Things In Life

Author:Scott Adams

“Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?”

Ifs Mean Ends Running Purpose Fun Realizing Late Method Lays Satisfaction Deny Practicals Too Late Breasts Justify Tape Stopping Ends Justify The Means Satisfaction In Life

Author:Walt Kelly

“Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know you'll be there at the other end, that you're trying to represent them in the best light, who they are as they're harnessing these roles. The methods vary from actor to actor.”

Knows Trying Different Ends Light Jobs Actors Roles Method Boundaries Temperament Vary

Author:Atom Egoyan

“Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.”

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Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing.”

“If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.”

Ifs Humans Ends Demand Method Democratic Conclusion Realization Human Experience

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Burns' Hog-Weighing Method: (1) Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. (2) Put the hog on one end of the plank. (3) Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. (4) Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.”

Ends Rocks Balance Weight Method Balanced Hog Weighing Symmetrical

Author:Robert Burns

“I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.”

“When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or in the ways of the Far East, perhaps by consulting the I Ching or through mandala contemplation; we may even find help in the ways of shamanism or Islam. If we are clear about where we stand and the direction we must take, such methods may be useful in order to follow our own way to the end.”

Ifs Way May Ends Enough Helping Order Views Christianity Clear Method Islam Point Of View East Contemplation Eastern Consulting Shamanism

Book:The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

Source: The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century

“Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.”

Ends Method Attainment Vigorous

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“I suspect that the theme, the nature of the characters, and the method of getting from the beginning of the play to the end is already established in the unconscious.”

Ends Play Character Method Theme Unconscious Suspects

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.”

People Persons Ends Actors Easy Careers Normal Married Hollywood Method Wide Traditional Mistress Getting Married Courtship

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.”

Should Has Beens Ends Country Conflict Method Court Alternatives Resolution Disputes Conflict Resolution Mediation Mediators

Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”

Want War Ends Government Peace Differences Harmony Method Settling Anti War Brutal Inhuman Peace And Harmony Peace Harmony Warlords Settling In

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.”

Ends Political Certain Decision Democracy Type Method Incapable Arrangements Arriving Administrative

Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter

“The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.”

Ends Tools Method Insight Operations Barriers March Epic Breach

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

Ends Science Faith Jesus Understanding Religious Study Greater Praying Universal Method Arbitrary Particles Angels And Demons Mecca Subatomic Particles

Book:Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

Source: Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.”

Mean Ends Existence Achievement Method Substance

Book:The Way of Kings

Source: The Way of Kings

“There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.”

Ifs Different Ends Sound Air Creating Beats Method Green Chaos Heavy Usual Lightness Mayhem

Author:Nick Cave

“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”

Inspirational Firsts Mean Ends Wisdom Goal Money Clear Achieve Materials Ideals Thirds Method Entrepreneur Practicals Objectives Definite Bad Ass Insperational Project Management

Author:Aristotle

“The followers of Christ have been called to peace. . . . And they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods . . . . His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce hatred and wrong. In so doing they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate.”

World Has Beens War Ends Suffering Hate Evil Causes Peace Christ Break Violence Hatred Overcoming Method Endure Midst Followers Disciple Fellowship Renounce Tumult

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes.”

Humans Ends Spirit Humanity Method Determined Diminish Human Spirit Autonomous

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.”

“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.”

“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

“As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about the whole thing. Anyway, our enemies had by now adopted our methods and as they became increasingly successful in this mode of warfare we were no longer exclusively the aggressors, but found ourselves more and more at the receiving end.”

Mind War Ends Whole Found Results Enemy Successful Method Substance Toxic Receiving Warfare Adopted Great War Scruples Aggressors

Book:My life: the autobiography of a scientist

Source: My life: the autobiography of a scientist

“I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.”

Believe Humans Ends Individual I Believe Wish Decision Clear Method Medical Rational Timing Euthanasia Pain In Life

Author:A.C. Grayling

“For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.”

Ends Sometimes Behinds Records Calling Picks Method Guitar Phones Cells Cell Phone

Author:Chris Daughtry

“Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods”

Mean Ends Greatness Method Unlimited Pragmatism Premium Prosecution

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods.”

Different Ends Race Birth Method Lays Seeking Instance Emphasis Birth Control Elimination

Author:Margaret Sanger

“The future of network marketing is unlimited. There's no end in sight. It will continue to grow because better people are getting into it . . . soon, it will be one of the most respected business methods in the world.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“Those who attempt to conquer hatred by hatred are like warriors who take weapons to overcome others who bear arms. This does not end hatred, but gives it room to grow. But, ancient wisdom has advocated a different timeless strategy to overcome hatred. This eternal wisdom is to meet hatred with non-hatred. The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.”

Giving Trying Doe Different Ends Grows Rooms Arms Bears Succeed Eternal Weapons Hatred Overcoming Method Strategy Ancient Warrior Conquer Timeless Ancient Wisdom

Author:Gautama Buddha

“You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.”

Life Humans Mean Important Ends Use Method Pleasant Human Society

Author:Clarence Darrow

“Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.”

Should Different Ends Country States Goal Accepting Progress Ought Standards Method Speed Expected

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space.”

Mean Important Ideas Ends Whole Helping Earth Moving Universe Space Doubt Mankind Method Depth Ships Settling No Doubt Reaching Elsewhere Rockets Settlement

Author:Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

“Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.”

Ends Failure Method Busy Rope Too Busy Saddest Predicaments

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“When you come up in the art world, whatevers in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.”

Thinking World Art Ends Moments Issues Air Painting Becoming Method Come Up Sculpture Art World Modus Operandi

Author:Chuck Close

“What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.”

Wells May Ends Political Goal Existence Method Sake Debate Discussion Temporary Undermining

Author:Jason Stanley

“I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.”

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