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Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
Henry Ford
Be prepared to modify any process, abolish any technique, discard any concept, if achieving the goal necessitates it.
2.
It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.
Ida Rolf
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The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
Frederik Pohl
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I cannot teach anybody how to cook. All I can do is show them, share methods with them.
Marco Pierre White
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To admit one's own presuppositions and to point out the presuppositions of others is therefore to maintain that all reasoning is, in the nature of the case, circular reasoning. The starting-point, the method, and the conclusion are always involved in one another.
Cornelius Van Til
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Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random
Donald Knuth
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It has yet to be shown by direct biochemical methods, as opposed to the indirect genetic evidence mentioned earlier, that the code is indeed a triplet code.
Francis Crick
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Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.
Phil Crosby
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It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
Conor Oberst
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Pete Egoscue has totally changed my life. Never have I experienced such complete pain relief as I have by following the Egoscue Method.
Jack Nicklaus
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer
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Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.
Leonhard Euler
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Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.
Stephen Metcalf
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A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.
Lev Landau
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Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.
John Wooden
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Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.
Mike Patton
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The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.
Clay Shirky
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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
Paulo Freire
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An idea which can be used only once is a trick. If one can use it more than once it becomes a method.
George Polya
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That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .
Julia Kristeva
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The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
Bernard M. Oliver
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Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.
David Ogilvy
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
Herman Melville
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Gabriel Marcel
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Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common.
Charley Reese
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Whenever the method of Worship Becomes more Important than the Person of Worship, We have already prostituted Our Worship.
Judson Cornwall
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People seek methods of learning to know God. Is it not much shorter and more direct to simply do everything for the love of Him? There is no finesse about it. One only has to do it generously and simply.
Brother Lawrence
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
Akhenaton
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Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
Zaha Hadid
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So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.
Martin Fowler
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My method for picking stocks has never changed. When businesses go from crappy to semicrappy, there's money to be made.
Peter Lynch
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Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Richard Cecil
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The lean startup method is not about cost, it is about speed.
Eric Ries
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The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.
Karl Pearson
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They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Georges Seurat
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I am the same kind of moron as the rest of you, it's the method that does the work, for me as well as for you.
Alfred Korzybski
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I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.
Anthony Kiedis