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“The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.”

Character Choices Influence Subjects Method Representation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.”

Self Powerful Influence Increase Method Self Respect Most Powerful Selfless Selfless Service

Book:Principle Centered Leadership

Source: Principle Centered Leadership

“Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds with a view of rewarding or punishing them. ...the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding.”

Mind Understanding Views Influence Divine Intellectual Method Deeds Connected Rational Latter Providence Incapable Divine Providence

Author:Maimonides

“Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still be faced with the fact that the constants themselves are different at different times. The gravitation constant is the same always. But the economic constants-these elasticities of demand and supply-depending, as they do, upon human consciousness, are liable to vary. The constitution of the atom, as it were, and not merely its position, changes under the influence of environment.”

“My education was a huge influence. I trained at the Lee Strasberg Institute at Tisch, which is a huge foundation for young actors. They teach you their methods, and give you the sense that acting is much more tangible than most people think. I think there's a mysticism of what acting is, in the fact that it's this ungraspable, spur-of-the-moment thing that nobody can understand.”

People Thinking Giving Moments Facts Young Actors Acting Teach Influence Huge Method Foundation Mysticism Tangible Institute Spurs Young Actors Spur Of The Moment

Author:Roberto Aguire

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should be united, both as teachers and pupils, in the same institution seems very desirable, but rarely in early life by a method that removes them from parental watch and care, and the protecting influences of a home.”

Source: Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage

“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”

Form Enemy Influence Enlightenment Romantic Direct Method Passionate Extremes Consistent Crucial Revolt Scientific Method Rationalism Indirect Universalism Direct And Indirect

Book:Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Source: Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

“The discovery of electrical waves... has had a profound influence on civilization; it has been instrumental in providing the methods which may bring all inhabitants of the world within hearing distance of each other and has potentialities social, educational and political which we are only beginning to realize.”

World May Has Beens Political Social Realizing Influence Civilization Discovery Method Distance Profound Wave Educational Hearing Providing Electrical

Author:Joseph John Thomson

“Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world”

World States United United States Influence Position Method Aids Around The World Foreign Aid

Author:John F. Kennedy

“When your team questions your motives and methods, you have lost their trust and you will not be able to influence them.”

Able Lost Team Influence Method Motive

Author:John Fairclough

“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.”

People Way Writing Trying Ideas Different Eye Acting Seeing Influence Majors Method Addresses Preaching Choir Through The Eyes Different Ideas Method Acting Preaching To The Choir

Author:Jello Biafra

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

“Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.”

Men War States Government Political Interest Influence Special Integrity Method Slavery Profit Civil War Threatened Cotton Special Interests Sinister

Book:The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt: Condensed from the Original Ed., Supplemented by Letters, Speeches, and Other Writings, and Edited with an Introd. by Wayne Andrews

Source: The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt: Condensed from the Original Ed., Supplemented by Letters, Speeches, and Other Writings, and Edited with an Introd. by Wayne Andrews

“Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new man with methods different from the conventional ones - and the conventional methods suffer from the influences of the society, which created them.”

Men Made Different Young Suffering Influence Needed Intellectual Tasks Method Errors Socialism Developing Revolutionary Conventional

Author:Che Guevara

“Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.”

Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

“The important question is, therefore, not whether anarchy is possible or not, but whether we can so enlarge the scope and influence of libertarian methods that they become the normal way in which human beings organise their society.”

Way Humans Important Human Beings Influence Normal Method Libertarian Anarchy Scope Important Questions

Book:Anarchy in Action

Source: Anarchy in Action

“Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.”

“I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research. You and I know there has been censorship of the material published. Equally important, the location of the economists in the Federal Reserve has had a significant influence on the kind of research they do, biasing that research toward noncontroversial technical papers on method as opposed to substantive papers on policy and results”

“Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.”

Self Play Force Influence Masters Development Method Slave Refuse Determined Self Realization Psychological Realization Submit External Influences Psychological Development

Book:Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings

Source: Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings

“I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns”

Want Giving Believe Stories Influence Concern Method

Author:Anne Tyler