“An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.” WritingSometimesLiteratureCareersCreativeTeacherEventsStudentsProduceOne DayMethodRemainsDemocraticWorkersGreedHungerFactoriesWorthwhileClientsCreative WritingFarmingImmuneTherapistsGreat WritersSentimentalityCounselingDemocratic SocietyFactory FarmingErraticAnathema Author:Alain de Botton
“You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.” ShouldMindLongOrderNamesMemoriesResultsNumbersAliveProduceThousandMethodIsolatedIncidentsOur Memories Book:Lasker's Manual of Chess Source: Lasker's Manual of Chess
“Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need to rid themselves of the idea that there are surefire methods which, when well applied, will produce certain predictable results. Whatever we do with and for our children ought to flow from our understanding of and our feelings for the particular situation and the relation we wish to exist between us and our child.” NeedsWellsChildrenIdeasFeelingsCertainValuesWishParentUnderstandingResultsSituationProduceParticularOughtBehaviorFlowRelationOur ChildrenMethodPredictable Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.” PeopleArtWealthBusinessClassUnited StatesAchieveProduceConsequenceMethodCraftsBusiness SuccessJustifiedBoastCultivation Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company
“If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.” IfsMindHumansProduceParticularFlowerMethodFruitSpotsSoilHuman MindWeed Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
“The ways of God are entirely different from our ways. To us it seems necessary to employ powerful means in order to produce great effects. This is not God's method; quite the contrary. He likes to choose the weakest instruments that He may confound the strong: "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong - Infirma mundi elegit ut confundat fortia".” WorldWayMayMeanDifferentSeemsOrderStrongPowerfulEffectsProduceWeakShameMethodInstrumentsContraryLikesRosary Author:Columba Marmion
“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.” RealValuesDesignProduceSkillsTestsMethodCodeConcentrationBugsInadequacyReal Value Author:Tony Hoare
“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.” PeopleWayStoriesShowsFormTermChallengesImpossibleProduceStrangeExcitingTheaterMethodMusicalCaughtThese DaysCaught UpMusical Theater Author:Nick Blaemire