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“Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.”

Turns Literature Understanding Information Reader Benefits Tasks Method Appreciation Helpful

Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

Source: The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

“It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.”

Way Doe Kids Turns Sleep Break Cry Baby Habit Training Method Harm Shade Purple Spoiled Being Spoiled Turning 40 Sleeping Baby

Book:My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

Source: My Brown Baby: On the Joys and Challenges of Raising African American Children

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”

Doe Ends Use Feelings Law Used Turns Liberty Police Method Criminals Illegal Rooted Confession Inherent Involuntary Convicts Abhorrence

Author:Earl Warren

“The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.”

Stories Turns Terrible Method Dues Editors Sparks Panic Initials Workshops

Author:Kelly Link

“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Important Age Turns Wish Discovery Relation Method Horrible Awake Torture Existential Strict Intermission

Author:W. H. Auden

“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

“I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.”

Use Turns Growing Information Source Protect Pages Method Empires Classified Information

Author:Barack Obama

“When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.”

Turns Method Insight Believer Silly Neglect Word Of God

Author:Max Anders

“Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.”

Ifs Turns Amount Method Tables Chairs Usability Sandpaper

Author:Alan Cooper

“It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story so he can do the take. And he does this incredible take. They go, "Cut." And then immediately John goes, "Anyways, so Alec, he's playing the chess." And I'm just going, "Holy crap." You get whiplash from those kinds of quick turns!”

Kind Doe Stories Turns Actors Can Do Hurt Views Cutting Holy Sitting Method Finals Incredibles Chess Witness Faster Chairs Makeup Crap Whiplash

Author:Judd Nelson

“Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This is disillusioning for those untrained in the scientific method, who thus turn to the rigid certainty of the Bible instead. There is something comfortable about a view that allows for no deviation and that spares you the painful necessity of having to think.”

“If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available.”

Ifs World Feels Writing Turns Communication Members Direct Method Available Strikes

Author:Margot Livesey