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“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”

Ifs Way Should Firsts I Can Secret Fire Figures Walking Conscious Advantage Method Affair Passing Admire Passings Evening Admire You

Book:Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)

Source: Pride and Prejudice (Illustrated)

“In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves.”

People World Should Firsts Stills Might Form Social Rocks Ideals Stones Scientist Method Traits Autism Severe Caves Spears Campfire Ideal World

Book:Thinking in Pictures

Source: Thinking in Pictures

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

Firsts Love Is Pay Kissing Method Compliment Veils Audacity

Author:Victor Hugo

“It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.”

Men Firsts Order Fighting Social Principles Return Speech Method Committed Vain Totalitarianism Freedom Of Thought Adopting Social Order

Book:Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

“If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.”

Firsts Wells Mean Self Common Method Oneself Accomplish Common Sense Avoiding Extinction

Author:Iain Banks

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.”

Firsts Different Problem Running Views Groups Conflict Method Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.”

Firsts Helping Easy Pieces Paper Findings Method Clean Nine Squares Scream Sheets Pencils Fourteen Fiddle Finding Someone Sharp Pencils

Author:Daniel Handler

“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”

Firsts Dream Night Lines Vision Air Rocks Arms Hundred Method Wings Eight Surface Flying Mediums Flight Logical Swim Pipe Flew Halt Extending Sars

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“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

“Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.”

“The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.”

Firsts Science Steps Evolution Method Species First Steps Sheer Accumulation

Author:Richard Goldschmidt

“In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery.”

Firsts May Able Science Natural Ability Results Principles Hard Work Solutions Discovery Method Aids Our Time Aptitude Natural Gifts

Author:Proclus

“It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus when he first saw the Western shore, Pizarro when he stared at the Pacific Ocean, Franklin when the electric spark came from the string of his kite, Galileo when he first turned his telescope to the heavens. Such moments are also granted to students in the abstract regions of thought, and high among them must be placed the morning when Descartes lay in bed and invented the method of co-ordinate geometry.”

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.”

“You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.”

Knows Men Firsts Art Two War Law Fighting Force Method Beast Art Of War Insufficient Recourse

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.”

“Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will enable the observer to discover general laws governing facts of the kind in question. The two stages, first of observation, and second of inference to a law, are both essential, and each is susceptible of almost indefinite refinement. (1931)”

Source: The Scientific Outlook

“The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This man had already passed through the two stages of observation and generalization. He had not, however, what scientific technique demands - a careful choice of significant facts on the one hand, and, on the other hand, various means of arriving at laws otherwise than my mere generalization.”

“His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 per cent of the labor. But he had a veritable contempt for book learning and mathematical knowledge, trusting himself entirely to his inventor's instinct and practical American sense. In view of this, the truly prodigious amount of his actual accomplishments is little short of a miracle.”

“Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.”

World Firsts Science Nature Study Taught Masters Accounts Method Followers Imitation Barbarism

Book:A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes

Source: A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts: In Two Volumes

“Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all solids of nature which have three dimensions,-length, width, and depth,-provided, however, that these solids are capable of rigorous definition. The second object is to furnish means to recognize accordingly an exact description of the forms of solids and to derive thereby all truths which result from their forms and their respective positions.”

Firsts Mean Two Truth Form Science Three Nature Results Position Objects Paper Capable Method Depth Definitions Drawing Dimensions Description Length Geometry Width Three Dimensions

Author:Gaspard Monge

“If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.”

Ifs Way Trying Firsts Believe Happens Lying Force I Believe Subjects Photography Method Photographer

Book:Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography

“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Knows Firsts Kind May Matter Numbers Quality Steps Principles Subjects Stage Essentials Method Connected Measurement Measuring Reckoning Physical Science Measure For Measure Flying Machines

Author:Lord Kelvin

“Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it. In warm conditions, though, it started to slip off my face. Other times they used this double-sided sticky tape, and I literally couldn't get it off my face. I would feel like I was ripping my face off and I had a lot of cuts and bruises because of it-huge red marks. People might think it was method acting.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Might Faces Used Bits Enjoy Acting Cutting Conditions Strange Huge Red Mark Method Warm Mask Slips Tape Bruises Sticky Method Acting Cuts And Bruises

Author:Gerard Butler

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.”

People World Firsts Film Actors Fun Method

Author:Javier Bardem

“Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of necessity to protect oneself, and are not continued but are instead converted into the greatest possible benefits for the subjects. Badly used are those cruelties which. although being few at the outset, grow with the passing time instead of disappearing. Those who follow the first method can remedy their condition with God and with men; the others cannot possibly survive.”

Ifs Men Firsts Wells Done Used Evil Speak Grows Conditions Subjects Protect Benefits Method Oneself Disappear Passing Passings Cruelty Remedy Strokes

Book:The Portable Machiavelli

Source: The Portable Machiavelli

“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.”

People Years Firsts Numbers Survival First Time Absolutes Method Rate Cancer Treatment Decrease Detection People With Cancer Cancer Death

Author:Ike Skelton

“Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.”

Inspirational Needs Firsts Mean Important Business Method Score More Money Earning Larry Earning Money

Author:Larry Ellison

“There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.”

Firsts Wells May Hands Natural Healing Masters Keys Limits Breaths Method Patient Convinced Breathing Good Health Natural Healing First Hand Experience

Author:Andrew Weil

“I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First, panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your doubts.”

Way Firsts Doubt Projects Thirds Method Solve Conquer Panic

Author:Eduardo Souto de Moura

“While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.”

Should Firsts Artist Individual Study Personality Universal Method Copies Great Art Great Artist

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.”

“To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.”

Firsts Weakness Method Tendencies Data Statistics Ingenious

Author:Michael Healy

“About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).”

Mind Firsts States Joy Method State Of Mind Elation

Author:Alexander Calder

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

“Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place.”

Firsts Individual Deals Cities Conditions New York Drug Behavior Method Convinced New York City Addict Alcoholics Drug Addict Juvenile Delinquents

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”

Firsts Philosophy Problem Teacher Discipline Logic Philosophical Method Details Greek Introduction

Author:Ibn Khaldun

“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”

Firsts Persons Two Character Artist Sides Steps Teach Training Conscious Harmony Method Train Critics First Steps Both Sides Propositions Hostile Converses Craftsman

Book:Becoming a Writer

Source: Becoming a Writer

“The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.”

Firsts Important Attitude Materials Habit Training Method Various Libertarian Factors Conclusion Good Man Suggestions Suspended

Book:How We Think: Top American Authors

Source: How We Think: Top American Authors

“Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.”

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil ; it exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty ; it confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, and supplies his incompetencies.”

Men Mind Firsts Body Suffering Heaven Poverty Subjects Exercise Office Method Hunger Extremes Bones Toil Supplies Undertakings Extreme Poverty Great Office

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

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