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“Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.”

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Author:Jon Voight

“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death”

Knows Men Wells Society Method Subtle

Author:Andre Gide

“In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.”

Knows Men Should Wells Art Feelings Age Lying Religious Common Consciousness Perception Method Fellows Unions Various Well Being Brotherhood Fellow Man Lying Men Brotherhood Of Man

Book:What is Art?:

Source: What is Art?:

“As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.”

Knows Used Artist Masters Photography Method Slave Loyal

Author:Robert Genn

“Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.”

People Knows Spiritual Practice Method Mysticism Introduction Spiritual Practice Dissolving Fixation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'”

Knows Stills Matter Progress Evolution Claims Method Prophet Spite Biology Quarters Mechanic Jumping Up And Down Paleontology Over Confident

Author:Errol White

“People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.”

People Knows Direct Method Knowing God Finesse

Author:Brother Lawrence

“But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.”

People Knows Years Wells Persons Has Beens Stills Might Three Numbers Millions Support Greater Benefits Argument Method Good People Murderer Lingering Cannibalism

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.”

Knows Process Education Study Skills Method Rivals

Author:Sara Genn

“The system concedes nothing without demand, for it formulates its very method of operation on the basis that the ignorant will learn to know, the child will grow into an adult and therefore demands will begin to be made. It gears itself to resist demands in whatever way it sees fit.”

Knows Way Children Made Grows Fit Demand Adults Bases Method Ignorant Made It Operations Gears

Author:Steven Biko

“We don't talk about sources and methods. Don't talk about ongoing intelligence operations. I know there's speculation. But it's important for the American people to understand that I will use my powers to protect us, and I will do so under the law, and that's important for our citizens to understand.”

People Knows Important Use Law Source Citizens Protect Method Operations Speculation Ongoing

Author:George W. Bush

“I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as "forbidden knowledge": methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.”

Thinking Knows Want Long Government Individual Stuff Interest Standing Method Killing Locks Forbidden Spy Select Entry Unarmed

Author:Barry Eisler

“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.”

Knows Self Suffering Atheism Method Positive Atheism Conversion Tyrants Coercion Infallible

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”

Ifs Knows Want May Use Dream Form Lying Force Know How Creative Keys Flow Method Wide What You Want Opening Mold

Author:Robert Collier

“It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.”

Knows Firsts Heart Littles Wish Kindness Praise Method Handsome Flattery Acquaintance Obtaining Her Beauty

Book:The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”

Knows Success Law Political Method Libertarian Secure Presidential Grants Execution Obnoxious Bad Laws Strict Laws

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and see what comes out. But as far as I am concerned, the computer is the worst damn instrument devised by man to screw up man-management.”

Knows Men Certain Modern Worst Computer Concerned Management Method Instruments Soldier Damn Attributes Screws Screw Ups

Author:Christopher Vokes

“... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Should Use Used Groups Method Angry Threat Nervous Corporations Underestimate Never Underestimate

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.”

Knows Body Time Lost Hours Method Train Vices Employment Distribution Idleness Avenues Every Avenue

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne

“Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.”

Ifs Knows Night Actors Social Emotional Scene Method Yeah

Author:Shay Mitchell

“I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.”

Knows Feels Should Problem Hands Happens Science Mathematics Method Physics

Author:Lawrence Shepp

“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.”

Ifs Knows Said School Lasts Desire Girl College One Day Method Intention Missions Circles Opening Candidates Ministry Principal Buttons Coats Arcs Brass Dismay Incredulity

Author:Anna Julia Cooper

“I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.”

“Managing the other fellow's business is a fascinating game. Trade unionists all over the country have pronounced ideas for the reform of Wall Street banks; and Wall Street bankers are not far behind in giving plans for the tremendous improvement of trade union policies. Wholesalers have schemes for improving the retailer; the retailer knows just what is wrong in the conduct of wholesale business-and we might go through a long list.... Yet for some reason the classes that ought to be helped keep on stubbornly clinging to their own method of running their affairs.”

“Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.”

Thinking Knows World Children Hard Three Easy Term Fashion Method Folks Work Out Suits

Book:Anne of Green Gables

Source: Anne of Green Gables

“My method seems to change to everything, especially when you get older. You have more of a resonance to be able to grab to. When you're younger, you have these big boundaries because you don't know how to get you to where you are. When you get older, you have a few tricks that you can pull off.”

Knows Bigs Seems Able Know How Method Boundaries Tricks Where You Are Resonance

Author:Jason Patric

“I do the best I can - I know my way around [Russian method acting pioneer] Stanislavski, but I can't take myself seriously like that. I respect people who do it, of course. I just think I'm lucky to still be working at 73. You reach a point in life where you just think, "Show up, do your job, make sure the cheque's on the way," and that's it. I'm not hungry to do anything more, really.”

People Thinking Knows Way Stills I Can Shows Jobs Courses Acting Lucky Method Hungry My Way Do The Best Pioneers Respect People Cheques Method Acting Points In Life Stanislavski

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote anything down. It doesn't matter to me whether he did or not exist because we have his teachings, his method of thinking, and his extreme intellectual and moral courage.”

Thinking Knows Matter Jesus Moral Teaching Intellectual Method Extremes Proof Witness Moral Courage

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”

Knows Men Long War Literature Military Method International Useless Settling Foe Disputes Abolition Destructiveness Settling In

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Should Film Actors Acting Cameras Method Bunch Nonsense Rolling Film Acting

Author:Natalie Portman

“Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.”

Knows Men Firsts Honor Offers Members Method Spots Clans Wu Tang Clan

Author:Josh Peck

“As much as you know it, and you know the method, you can pretty much do what you want. No idea is going to be shot down. You just put it in the garbage later. You have to say the lines in many different ways. So they have a lot of material to work.”

Knows Way Want Ideas Different Lines Materials Shots Method What You Want No Idea Different Ways Garbage

Author:Antonio Banderas

“We know the secret police's methods, and the way the archive and registry were run - that's how we know. We've also found evidence from the Bolek file cited in other files.”

Knows Way Running Found Secret Evidence Police Method Files Archives Secret Police

Author:Slawomir Cenckiewicz

“All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Clear Method Working It

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

“What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.”

Knows Giving Mind Self Body Beautiful Universe Easy Difficult Sound Powerful Advice All Things Method Triumph Most Powerful Good Life Sound Body

Author:Thales

“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

“I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.”

Thinking Knows Reason Television Expression Method Boring Accepted Shy Private Life

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.”

“A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.”

Thinking Knows Writing Simple Stupid Direct Method Critics Sentences Defects

Book:If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

Source: If This Isn't Nice What Is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By

“How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this.”

Knows Inspiration Spirit Lord Method Revelations

Author:Brigham Young

“[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.”

“As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes. It is a mistake to think that one limits one's risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence. . . . One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.”

“People have really different methods of working. Some people prepare tons and tons of material, literally on paper, and they will use as much of it as they can. Some people prepare various lines in their heads and various avenues to go. And some people show up literally going, "I know who I am and I know what the situation is, but I'm just going to see what comes out."”

People Knows Different Use Shows Lines Situation Materials Paper Method Various Who I Am Avenues

Author:Jim Piddock

“I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone who is a responsible historian, who is actually trained in the historical method, or anybody who is a biblical scholar who does this for a living, who gives any credence at all to any of this.”

Thinking Knows Giving Doe Jesus Evidence Responsible Method Historical Silly Overwhelming Historian Scholar Biblical Credence

Author:Bart D. Ehrman

“I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.”

Knows Way Use School Known Method Mixtures

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I think I've done a lot in this business, whether through screwball methods or not I don't know, that has helped other bands. I made a kind of road for them, you might say. If I raised my price, they found out about it and raised theirs. But somebody had to start it, to make the first move. You have to have the courage and confidence in your own ability. You have to know what the hell and who the hell you are in this business. Music may change, but I don't think that ever will.”

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Author:Benny Goodman

“The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.”

People Knows Feels Should Kind Stills Sometimes Inspiration Causes Acting Cities Wonder Know How Teacher New York Huge Draws Appreciate Method Riding Subway Best Acting Acting Teachers

Author:Amy Ryan

“I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!”

Knows Actors Method

Author:Jason Statham

“Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!”

Ifs Knows Feels Actors Felt Loses Needed Method Video Bad Day Angst

Author:Daniel Powter