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“The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures.”

Issues Fire Effects Design Building Materials Industry Method Structure Terrorism Protection Traditional Code Tragic Construction Steel Infrastructure Evaluate Construction Industry

Author:Craig Scott

“One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.”

Suffering Compassion Imagine Method Traditional Imagine That Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.”

Ifs Use Can Do Technology Method Traditional

Author:Michel Gondry

“My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.”

Thinking Problem Acting Understood Method Traditional Supposed To Be

Author:Tina Fey

“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.”

People Should Humans Mean Decision Seeing Doors Happenings Method Threat Opening Traditional Chains Bombs Warfare Dropping Missiles Drones Launching Dropping Bombs

Author:Edward Snowden

“Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.”

Self Practice Criticism Method Remains Traditional Immune Accounting Scientific Method Self Criticism

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That’s just not my style... I cook from the soul.”

Soul Challenges Style Method Cooking Technique Traditional Cooks Dishes

Author:Aaron Sanchez

“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.”

“There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.”

“The traditional selling models, methods, and techniques that most of us have been trained to use work best in small sales. For now, let me define small as a sale which can normally be completed in a single call and which involves a low dollar value. Unfortunately, these tried-and-true low-value sales techniques, most of them dating from the 1920s, don't work today.”

Has Beens Use Today Values Models Lows Let Me Dating Method Dollars Technique Selling Traditional

Book:SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff

Source: SPIN Selling: Situation Problem Implication Need-Payoff

“Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.”

Looks Character Helping Christian Spiritual Form Growth Results Our Lives Habit Method Prepared Traditional Spiritual Growth Stem Vitality Formation Spiritual Formation

Book:The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

Source: The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.”

Thinking Way Want Giving Trying Used Stuff Style Projects Method Track Hip Hop Rap Storytelling Traditional Hips Hops Vocal

Author:Galcher Lustwerk

“Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.”

Way Shows Able Social Media Method Conservative Communicate Social Media Traditional Rely Display New Ways

Author:Kesh

“Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.”

Method Marketing Traditional Prospecting

Author:Jill Konrath

“Most of what I have seen, the churches that are growing are the best are those that are nondenominational. But I don't think it's because they are nondenominational. I think that there's a certain method by which they go about reaching out to people that are not as traditional as your mainland churches generally do.”

People Thinking Certain Church Growing Method Traditional Reaching Reach Out

Author:T. D. Jakes

“Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The whole idea of fertility regulation was still extremely new in this setting and many husbands and other family members were angry when they found out that women had decided on their own to use the method and had gone to the clinic in secret.”

“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

“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”

Thinking Knows Science Knowledge Seeing Ought Method Traditional Testing Hindsight Scientific Method You Think You Know Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.”

Ifs Knows Made Imagination Natural Know How Building Materials Products Involved Elements Method Architecture Traditional Architect Conventional Components Avant Garde Natural Elements

Author:Martin Filler

“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”

Reason Facts Certain Values Subjects Materials Method Notion Educational Traditional Reason Why Diets Abstract Acquaintance Traditional Education

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.”

Men Years Lasts Method Killing Creator Protection Traditional Discworld Patents Small Gods

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity.”

Mean Has Beens Enough Helping Truth Common Method Traditional Propaganda Historian Falsehood Posterity Diligent Search For Truth

Book:The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

Source: The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author

“Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.”

Thinking Needs Enough Creative Car Design Habit Encouragement Method Traditional Excellent Analysis Judgement Wheels Emphasis Motor Complacency Motor Cars

Author:Edward de Bono

“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.”

“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.”

People Way Littles Has Beens Care Easy Projects Program Method Medicine Humanitarian Medical Socialism Traditional Disguise Reluctant Imposing Medical Care Socialized Medicine

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.”

People Knows Hands Known Method Boundaries Traditional Educated Ties Torture Etc Rebel Backwards Nra

Author:Yoweri Museveni

“I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.”

Method I Realized Traditional Casting Carving

Author:Martin Puryear

“One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism has been by way of medicine....If you don't do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was like in American when men were free.”

Ifs Men Way Years Children Has Beens Care Our Children Method Medicine Socialism Traditional Health Care These Days Sunset Medicare Imposing

Author:Ronald Reagan