Method Quotes - Page 29

• The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

  Stephen Neill

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• The deliberate expansion of means and methods does not automatically bring a new dimension of value.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Mean, Expansion, Doe

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• A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Growing, Enthusiasm

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.33, Studio Beckett Publications

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• As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

  Robert Genn

  Photography, Artist, Loyal

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• New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Methodology

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• Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Successful, Today

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Order, Idiot

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.

  Will Rogers

  Peace, War, America

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.19, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Genius, World

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• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

  Rachel Carson

  Intelligent, Disease And Death, Kind

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Race

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• A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Practice, Mind, Primaries

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

  John W. Campbell

  Men, Bird, Trying

  John W. Campbell Jr. (1955). “Who Goes There?: And Other Stories”

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• In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

  Will Rogers

  Important, Feels, Persons

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• New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Teaching, School

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.7, Best Books on

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• Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Writing, Discovery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1177, ShandonPress

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• We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Doors, Back Doors, Fronts

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, People, Challenges

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• Women have been denied access to advanced methods of self discovery throughout the ages.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Discovery, Self

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• One thing I have seen, regardless of the method of aprehenesion of the dimensional plane one is in, is self-giving and how effective it is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Self

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• Our method of proclaiming salvation is this: to point out to every heart the loving Lamb, who died for us, and although He was the Son of God, offered Himself for our sins ... by the preaching of His blood, and of His love unto death, even the death of the cross.

  Nicolaus Zinzendorf

  Heart, Son, Blood

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• Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Practice, People

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• Cherish [Science], venerate her, follow her methods faithfully ... and the future of this people will be greater than the past.

  Thomas Huxley

  Past, Thinking, People

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