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“Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.”

Way Mind Simple Awareness Buddhism Method Perceive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.”

Way Writing Kind Has Beens Ideas Different Found Common Successful Succeed Elements Determination Method Persistence Overwhelming Different Kinds Determination To Succeed

Book:For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners

“Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.”

“There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.”

Way Mind Two Important Facts Opinion Theory Fit Authority Method Proof Description Academic Convenience Two Ways Scientific Method Scholastics

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”

Way Want Doe Ideas Different Matter Progress Expression Evolution Method Following Theme

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.”

Ifs Way Secret Silence Huge Gains Method Oneself Zone Surround Protective Wavelength

Book:Past tense: diaries

Source: Past tense: diaries

“If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.”

Ifs Way Difficult Effort Practice Journey Offers Method Profound Manuals Manual Work

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

“The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.”

People Way Want Two Language Nations Race Plans Method Mutual Dependence Antagonism Statesmanship Two Nations

Author:Richard Cobden

“I think the kicks in Wing Chun are enough. It´s much easier to use your hands than to use your feet. Your hand is able to reach your opponent long before your foot. Why take the long way to attack (circle), when there is a much more direct method of attack? If you are using your hands, then your opponent can´t see a kick coming if you have to use it. When you teach Kung Fu, you can fool a lot of people, but not yourself. You can make like a movie and do many complicated movements and kicks, but you only fool yourself as to whether that would work in a real situation of life and death.”

“Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.”

Way Want Needs Humans Doe Wisdom Action Wise Exercise Creatures Capacity Harder Method Intelligence Intellect

Author:Krista Tippett

“Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.”

“The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember evidence that confirms our beliefs or decisions, and to ignore, dismiss, or forget evidence that is discrepant. That's why we are all inclined to stick to a hypothesis we believe in. Science is one way of forcing us, kicking and screaming if necessary, to modify our views.”

“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”

“Each practitioner thinks there's one magic way to get a machine to be smart, and so they're all wasting their time in a sense. On the other hand, each of them is improving some particular method, so maybe someday in the near future, or maybe it's two generations away, someone else will come around and say, "Let's put all these together," and then it will be smart.”

Thinking Way Two Hands Together Generations Magic Particular Smart Machines Method Someday Artificial Intelligence Improving Being Smart Maybe Someday

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”

“There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.”

Way Should Two Moving Born Died Method Philosopher Gods Will Two Ways Extending

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.”

Way Two War Age Strong Results Military Possibility Prejudice Method Peaceful Two Ways

Author:George F. Kennan

“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”

Men World Way Soul Would Be Common Break Easier Aim Method Critical Abstract Theme Knives Acid Separating Dissecting

Book:The decline of the West

Source: The decline of the West

“Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.”

Ifs Way Humans Persons Human Beings Liberty Concerned Method Justified Resorts Deprived

Author:Malcolm X

“Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.”

Way Two Reality Universe Common Talking Magic Method Compatible Way Of Talking

Author:Neil Gaiman

“A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).”

Source: Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered

“There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.”

Way Social Ought Method Axioms Analysts Implied

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“There are two ways of doing battle against Disgrace. You may live it down; or you may run away from it and hide. The first method is heart-breaking, but sure. The second cannot be relied upon because of the uncomfortable way Disgrace has of turning up at your heels.”

Way Firsts Heart May Two Running Battle Method Uncomfortable Running Away Heels Disgrace Two Ways Heart Breaking

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.”

Way May Said Soul Self Spiritual Found Lost Natural Meditation Truth Is And Love Method Impression Rising Joyful Representation Communion Rise Above Faith And Love

Author:John of the Cross

“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

“Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.”

Way Mean Ends States Greatness Police Method Threat Criminals Unlimited Coercion Police State Pragmatism Premium Prosecution

Author:Margaret Chase Smith

“For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.”

Way Important Character Records Singing Red Method My Way Visuals Lipstick Red Lips Red Lipstick

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.”

Way Years Important Different Done Social Natural Study Areas Method Scientific Method Social Science Natural Science

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.”

Way Wells Effort Known Study Mathematics Method Details Well Known Filling Enjoyable Profitable Filling In Studying Mathematics

Author:Cornelius Lanczos

“To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the market in which the workers find jobs, and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.”

Way Different Jobs Form Duty Members Method Workers Characteristics Occupation Peculiar Payment Housewife Tenure Supervision

Author:Barbara Bergmann

“The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.”

Way Problem Path Method Competition New Ways Requirements

Author:Seth Godin

“The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga.”

Ifs Way Trying Art Ideas Stories Method Individuality Drawing Appeals Japan Hectic

Author:Akira Toriyama

“Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that way for about ten years. When I decided to stop, I adopted the method that my father had used when he quit. He would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, and every time he felt like smoking, he would pull out the cigarette and confront it: "Who stronger? You? Me?" Always the answer was the same: "I stronger." Back the cigarette would go, until the next craving. It worked for him, and it worked for me.”

Way Years Two Funny Used Next Father Felt Answers Ten Decided Stronger Method Quitting Smoke Shirts Smoking Pockets Cigarette Packs Adopted Craving Cigar

Author:Kirk Douglas

“The common sense of the word (navy) as we use it today refers to a permanent fighting service made up of ships designed for war, manned by professionals and supported by an adminsistrative and technical infrastructure. A navy in this sense is only one possible method of making war at sea, and by some way the most difficult and the most recent. There have in the past been, and to some extent still are, many other ways of generating sea power.”

Way Made Stills War Use Today Past Fighting Difficult Common Sea Method Common Sense Ships Permanent Navy Infrastructure Sea Power

Author:Nicholas Rodger

“Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?”

Men Way Should Eye Politics Natural Lines Wealth Economy Rich Normal Method Possession Contemporary Ease Liberalism Capitalist Machinery Rich Man Contemporary Society

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”

Source: The second American revolution: some personal observations

“Etiquette is an intelligent way to live. There are certain ways of living you will learn being around advanced students and mostly your teacher. These are methods that have been handed down for thousands of years.”

Way Years Has Beens Certain Teacher Students Buddhism Intelligent Method Buddhist Etiquette Way To Live

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The meaning of life changes as you change dimensional planes. The way human beings perceive the world is only one simple method of seeing. There are many ways to see life. Life has many meanings, and self realization is the understanding of all this.”

World Way Humans Self Understanding Human Beings Simple Seeing Method Self Realization Realization Planes Perceive Life Changing Meaning Of Life Mysticism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is probably true that almost all atheists stand for the values of reason and freethought. I will attempt to put these values in more substantial terms. There is the belief that inquiry and doubt are essential checks against deception, self deception, and error. There is the belief that logic and the scientific method is the only way the world can arrive at an agreement on the truth about anything.”

World Way Self Reason Values Belief Term Doubt Atheism Essentials Logic Method Errors Atheist Checks Deception Agreement Inquiry Self Deception Scientific Method

Author:Richard Carrier

“The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.”

Way Littles Hands Force Views Mistake Method Deeper Priceless Psychotherapists

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.”

Ifs Way Firsts Mean Ideas Courses Steps Path Progress Method Progressive Transition

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups or between groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to be run. If you look back, you will see that warfare was an invention, just as ways of handling government or taxes are inventions. You will see, too, that once people use an invention they go on using it until they find another which they think is superior.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Firsts Looks Different War Use Problem Government Running Views Groups Goes On Conflict Taxes Method Invention Superiors Warfare Different Views

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

“It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.”

Source: Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)

“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.”

“The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.”

Way Children Helping Levels Secret Meditation Taught Skills Increase Method Ancient Technique Priests Psychics Ancient Egypt Atlantis Priestesses

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“... 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

“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

“When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.”

People Way Facts Happens Building Window Method Blow Stores Things Happen Planes Bombs Tanks Crowded Unsuccessful Crowded Places

Author:N. T. Wright

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