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“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”

Routine Systems Methodical

Book:Conversations with Yogananda: Stories, Sayings and Wisdom

Source: Conversations with Yogananda: Stories, Sayings and Wisdom

“It's almost comical that astronauts are stereotyped as daredevils and cowboys. As a rule, we're highly methodical and detail-oriented. Our passion isn't for thrills but for the grindstone, and pressing our noses to it.”

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Book:An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.”

Thinking Important Left Sides Brain Careful Ingredients Spontaneous Methodical Left Brain

Author:Brian Johnson

“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.”

Ends Political Century Myth Invention Engineering Twentieth Century Methodical Great Inventions

Book:More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism

“Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest.”

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Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“How long did it take me to delimit this art? Twenty years! ... It was a laborious process, but a methodical and rational one; gradually the hesitations were ironed out, but not all of a sudden.”

Years Long Art Process Twenties Rational Take Me Hesitation Methodical

Author:Joaquin Sorolla

“When you're young you try to be methodical and philosophical, but reality keeps breaking in.”

Trying Reality Young Philosophical Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.”

Should Firsts Philosophy Play Lasts Interesting Air Poet Demand Machines Philosophical Flying Absurd Mediums Instance Piano Poetry Is Requirements Tanks Sewing Forlorn Methodical

Author:Randall Jarrell

“All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.”

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Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits.... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation.”

“Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time.”

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Author:William Matthews

“when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.”

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Book:Essential Turgenev

Source: Essential Turgenev

“One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.”

I Can One Thing Methodical

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.”

Thinking Way Problem Artist Taught Approach Pilots Airplane Problem Solving Way Of Thinking Meticulous Methodical

Author:Chris Carter

“We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.”

“When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

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Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“I'm not going to say paint is an easy spruce-up. It takes time, it needs touch-ups, and you have to be very methodical. But it is worth it, and it isn't particularly expensive.”

Needs Easy Paint Expensive Take Time Worth It It Takes Time Methodical

Author:Nate Berkus

“Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.”

Ifs Mind Moments Succeed Methodical

Author:William Matthews

“When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative, would not fall into a routine, involved problem solving and making things. It also had to be dynamic. I came up with special effects.”

Ifs Problem Fall Careers Creative Special Effects Internet Involved Library Routine Problem Solving Special Effects Methodical

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit more style. But, on the whole, I feel Batman - a stoic, methodical, detective - is better served a wee bit reserved. And, I'm anything but comfortable. Zero Year is pressure, man.”

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Author:Greg Capullo

“We are often in society told to make decisions in one of two ways. We're either told "Use your gut, just go with how you feel about it and let that guide you," or we're told to use reason - some very deliberative methodical process of pros and cons and really thinking it through.”

Thinking Way Feels Two Reason Use Process Decision Guides Guts Two Ways How You Feel Methodical Pros And Cons

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.”

Needs Stills Sometimes Hard Play Attitude Hard Work Involved Approach Calm Get Involved Play Hard Methodical Work Hard Play Hard

Author:Damian Lewis

“We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.”

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Book:Annie Besant: An Autobiography

Source: Annie Besant: An Autobiography

“He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.”

Men May Madness Method Mad Methodical

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.”

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Book:The collected aphorisms

Source: The collected aphorisms

“It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.”

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Author:Theophile Gautier

“A patient, methodical sort of madman. The worst kind.”

Kind Worst Patient Madmen Methodical

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.”

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Book:Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

Source: Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel

“God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.”

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Author:Thomas Brooks

“As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".”

Thinking Wells May Science Purpose Religious Findings Connections Sensual Methodical

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.”

Men Laziness Sloth Measuring Idlers Methodical

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“Medicine is an incoherent assemblage of incoherent ideas, and is, perhaps, of all the physiological Sciences, that which best shows the caprice of the human mind. What did I say! It is not a Science for a methodical mind. It is a shapeless assemblage of inaccurate ideas, of observations often puerile, of deceptive remedies, and of formulae as fantastically conceived as they are tediously arranged.”

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Author:Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

“I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.”

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Author:Matthew Williamson

“I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.”

World Care Quality Influence Cooking Organized Japan Italian Neat Cuisine Italian Food Methodical

Author:Sasha Cohen

“Methodical thinking is of more use in Chess than inspiration”

Thinking Use Inspiration Success Chess Chess Game Methodical

Author:Cecil Purdy

“Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.”

Mean Power Development Labor Will Power Methodical

Author:J. G. Holland

“I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.”

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Author:Deepika Padukone

“There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.”

“Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.”

“I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.”

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Author:Jim Cramer

“A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.”

Wells Heaven Christ Saving Methodical

Book:THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP

Source: THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE OPENED UP

“The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.”

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Author:Georg Hermes

“The first and foremost duty of the high school in teaching mathematics is to emphasize methodical work in problem solving...The teacher who wishes to serve equally all his students, future users and nonusers of mathematics, should teach problem solving so that it is about one-third mathematics and two-thirds common sense.”

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Author:George Polya

“I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.”

Inspirational May Long I Can Wanted Sound Exciting I've Learned Graduation Diligent Methodical

Author:Jamie Hyneman

“Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.”

Thinking Creation Habit Methodical

Author:Ernest Dimnet

“After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.”

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Author:Alexander Kotov

“I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.”

Thinking Careers Methodical

Author:Chris Isaak