Henry Ford
Industrialist
"Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it."
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Method
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Claude Monet
Painter
"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success."
Hermann Hesse
Novelist, Poet
"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
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"But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object."
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"It's not the method, it's the mindset."
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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."
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"Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education."
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"We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion."
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"There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth."
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"Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still."
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"See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation."
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"Be firm on principle but flexible on method."
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"If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution."
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"Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them."
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"There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
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"Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides."
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"The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience."
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"Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism."
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"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"
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"The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade."
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"I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method."
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"Method will teach you to win time."
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"Improvisation is a compositional method."
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