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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

“It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.”

Use Body Form Order Names Language Secret Generations Movement Habit Weapons Relation Method Instinct Jew Various Rely Secrecy Rely Upon Secret Society

Book:Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

Source: Belloc: A Biographical Anthology

“I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.”

Order Military Method Idiot Operations Bewildered

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.”

Order Difficult Change Situation Conflict Method Embrace Obstacles Reactions Resistance Encounters Positive Change Situations In Life

Author:Yehuda Berg

“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.”

Should Mind Long Order Names Memories Results Numbers Alive Produce Thousand Method Isolated Incidents Our Memories

Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess

Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.”

Order Bases Method Sentences Operations Definite Measurement Verification True Or False

Book:Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control

Source: Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control

“I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.”

Way Has Beens Book Different Sometimes Helping Problem Wanted Order Views Pay Attention Mistake Method Point Of View Different Ways Editors Underestimate

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Method will teach you to win time.”

Order Winning Teach Method

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.”

Men Humans Mean Order Universe Change Chance Views Responsibility Roles Risk Acceptance Innovation Method Certainty Assertion Taking Risks Human Power

Author:Peter Drucker

“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.”

“Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.”

Men Mind Spirit Order Learning Successful Genius Method Ignorant Jealous Contempt Enlightening Censure Risque

Author:Jon Jones

“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.”

“The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.”

Mind Eye Order Turns Method Arrangements

Author:Rene Descartes

“Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.”

“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.”

Use Christian Order Courses Ability Compassion Meditation Buddhism Method Forgiving Technique Devotion Buddhist Monk Nun

Author:Dalai Lama

“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".”

World Way May Mean Different Seems Order Strong Powerful Effects Produce Weak Shame Method Instruments Contrary Likes Rosary

Author:Columba Marmion

“The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.”

“When amusement is necessary to get people to listen to the gospel there will be failure. This is not the method of Christ. To form an organization and provide all kinds of entertainment for young people, in order that they may come to the Bible classes, is to be foredoomed to failure.”

People Kind May Form Young Order Christ Class Organization Method Entertainment All Kinds Amusement

Author:G. Campbell Morgan

“Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.”

World Believe Stories Use Order Next I Believe Process Stage Information Evolution Creating Ultimate Method Patterns Our World Processing Epoch Information Processing

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“The other thing that gives a scientific man the creeps in the world today are the methods of choosing leaders - in every nation. Today, for example, in the United States, the two political parties have decided to employ public relations men, that is, advertising men, who are trained in the necessary methods of telling the truth or lying in order to develop a product.”

“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

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.”

May Used Order Fighting Needed Victory Battle Direct Method Secure Art Of War Joining Indirect Strategist Four Seasons

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.”

“The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge dams, to build motorways, to take away what people need in order to survive - we will keep pumping more and more money into population programs. We will have more and more coercive and violent methods through which women's bodies are treated as experimental grounds for new contraceptives. Yet we will not have a solution to the problem of numbers.”

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”

Order Literature Method Careful Enterprise

Book:Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick: or, The Whale

“For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods become exhausted; stimuli no longer work. New problems appear and demand new methods. Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes from the old, but that is why it is new.”

Ifs Problem Reality Would Be Order Demand Flow Method Tables Golden Representation Exhausted Stimulus

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“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

“Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.”

Way Moments Use Order Morning Method Notes Clever

Book:The Scorpio Races

Source: The Scorpio Races

“There are ultimately only two possible adjustments to life; one is to suit our lives to principles; the other is to suit principles to our lives. If we do not live as we think, we soon begin to think as we live. The method of adjusting moral principles to the way men live is just a perversion of the order of things.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Two Order Moral Principles Our Lives Life Philosophy Method Suits Preacher Adjustment Perversion Adjusting Moral Principles

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack.. the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.”

Giving May Art Two War Used Order Fighting Needed Victory Battle Direct Method Series Endless Secure Combination Art Of War Joining Indirect Strategist

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.”

Source: History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy

“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.”

“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.”

“It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, "objectivity," "truth," it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.”

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.”

Source: Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America

“There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.”

Order Courses Virtue Discipline Weak Method Course Of Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.”

World Should Used Order Nations United Opinion Method Negotiation United Nations Mobilization

Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“Long intervals frequently elapse between the discovery of new principles in science and their practical application... Those intellectual qualifications, which give birth to new principles or to new methods, are of quite a different order from those which are necessary for their practical application.”

Giving Long Different Science Order Principles Creativity Birth Intellectual Discovery Method Practicals Invention Application Intervals Qualifications

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.”

Life Needs Use Order Mathematics Method Math Mathematical Logical Propositions

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus