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“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.”

Trying Art Two Beautiful Winning Sports Study Trouble Position Method Chess Admire Combination Opponents Knights Bishops Endgame

Author:Ashot Nadanian

“Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.”

Ends Trouble Method

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch someone else fail as fast as possible. Watching someone else screw up is a kind of rehearsal for your own eventual downfall. A close observation of someone else's attempt to resolve a difficulty is a great way to acquire real-world insight into whether and when to deploy their method in your own times of trouble.”

“There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I was assuming people vote sincerely. The trouble with methods where you have three or four classes, I think if people vote sincerely they may well be very satisfactory. The problem is the incentive to misrepresent your vote may be high.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells May Problem Three Class Four Trouble Vote Method Assuming Bother Impossibility Incentives Sincerely Theorems

Author:Kenneth Arrow

“If you have methods without principles, you're going to have trouble. But if you develop methods based on principles, then you can make progress.”

Ifs Principles Progress Trouble Method

Author:Charles Koch

“My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.”

Wise Trouble Method Right Thing Public Speaking Levity Right Thing To Say

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.”

Knows Next Successful Trouble Speech Rivers Method Solve Passing Passings Hills Streams Collectives Shipping Vagrants

Book:The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

Source: The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold

“I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.”

Ifs Knows Difficult Trouble Heard Morality Aim Method British

Book:Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Source: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.”

Knows Men Trying May Jobs Winning Work Principles Millions Know How Trouble He Man Ambition Method Prize Boss Select My Ambition Try Me

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.”

Wells Self Matter Facts Running Science Causes Trouble Mankind Method Assured Matter Of Fact

Author:Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?”

Men World Mean Seems Might Simple Common Consciousness Christianity Trouble Easier Method Oneself Devices God's Love God's Presence

Author:Brother Lawrence

“The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.”

Long Stills Levels Generations Trouble Century Birth Method Population Driven Range Assumption Projection Fertility Predicting

Author:Nicholas Eberstadt