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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, What Matters, Pay

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• Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

  Paul Russo

  Impact, Errors, Black

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• Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.

  Joan Robinson

  Law, Progress, Details

  Joan Robinson (1967). “Essay on Marxian Economics”, p.95, Springer

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• Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Motivational, Writing, Mean

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 88), 1986.

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• I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Ideas, Earth, Landscape

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• When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry and physics are science, but the scientific method is something else.... It's the science that the world of cooking generates: science of butter; science of the croissant.

  Ferran Adria

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Compassion, Practice

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• Buddha's teachings are scientific methods to solve the problems of all living beings permanently.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Teaching, Scientific Method, Problem

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.11, Tharpa Publications US

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• The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

  Kelly Link

  Editors, Panic, Sparks

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

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• Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Data, Processing

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• It is clear that these are alternative methods of co-ordinating production. Yet, having regard to the fact that, if production is regulated by price movements, production could be carried on without any organization at all might we ask, why is there any organization?

  Ronald Coase

  Organization, Alternatives, Movement

  "The Nature of the Firm". Book by Ronald Coase (p. 388), 1937.

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• As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Flames, Two, Water

  "Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1987.

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• Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

  William Poundstone

  Years, Salary, Cash

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.132, Macmillan

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• Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Order, True Or False, Measurement

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation

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• We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe...Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.

  Albert Einstein

  Reality, Perception, Remember

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• The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Names, Scientific Method, Foundation

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• Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Past, Men

  "The Real Problem is in the Hearts of Man" by Michael Amrine, New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.

  Ken Wilber

  Profound, Force, Discovering

  Ken Wilber (2011). “The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion”, p.12, Random House

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• There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Hands, Soldier

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• Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

  Leonard Rossiter

  People, Stopping, Television

  "The Devil's Bedside Book". Book by Leonard Rossiter, p. 46, 1980.

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• The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Moving, Responsibility, Thinking

  G.E.M. Anscombe (2011). “Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.190, Andrews UK Limited

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• I believe it is the best method to get the buy-in for the road we have to travel. I believe it is a problem-solving process about how we collectively come forward with a strategy to deal with the issue.

  Brian Cowen

  Believe, Issues, Problem

  "An Irishman's Diary". www.irishtimes.com. January 09, 2009,.

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• Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.

  George Dantzig

  Real, Mean, Men

  "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming" by George Dantzig, Mathematical programming: the state of the art, p. 78-86, 1983.

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• If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.

  George Dantzig

  Alternatives, Use, Schedules

  George Dantzig (2016). “Linear Programming and Extensions”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• The complete and definitive work of art is created beyond one's individuality... ...The universal transcends such a level. Mere spontaneity has never created a work of art which possesses a lasting cultural value. The method leading to universal form is based upon calculations of measure and number.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Numbers, Individuality

  "Elementarism". De Stijl - Van Doesburg Issue, p. 17 - 19, January 1932.

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