Procedure Quotes

#1. The growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

Julia Lathrop

#2. My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

#3. That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.

John Dewey

#4. It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

Karl Popper

#5. Halsted called this procedure the "radical mastectomy," using the word radical in the original Latin sense to mean "root"; he was uprooting cancer from its very source.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say.

Warren Buffett

#7. A family meeting is a procedure, and it requires no less skill than performing an operation.

Susan Block

#8. first reaction to the indescribable, stupid, and undignified procedure required for procreation had been disappointment...

Dave Duncan

#9. I've decided to listen to my doctors and get the procedure I need on my knee. USA Basketball said I had to do what was best for me. They want me to be obviously as healthy as possible so I can continue to play this game at a high level.

Dwyane Wade

#10. The procedure, not yet approved in the United States or in Europe, was a form of stem cell therapy.

Joseph M. Chiron

#11. Would he be able to kill when the procedure was done? He took a sip of the bitter coffee, swallowing it down along with his trepidation. It was his obsession that he wanted to remove, not his ability.

Bey Deckard

#12. Doing what's right when someone was in need should be standard operating procedure for all humankind.

C.P. Smith

#13. There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.

Godfried Danneels

#14. To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

David Brooks

#15. It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

Wayne Dyer

#16. An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Henri Matisse

#17. They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

John Irving

#18. Spiritual growth is more than a procedure; it's a wild search for God in the tangled jungle of our souls.

Michael Yaconelli

#19. Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

Cary Grant

#20. I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

Damon Hill

#21. Today we must all be aware that protocol takes precedence over procedure.

Irwin Corey

#22. During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.

Chen Shui-bian

#23. In essence, Zizek's procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually "introducing" the project of transcendental phenomenology. The one thing that has changed is that Zizek is publishing his drafts as he goes.

Adam Kotsko

#24. This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

Maureen Johnson

#25. Well my name Nicki & it's nice to meet ya, if you really wanna know I'll give you my procedure. Got a whole bunch of pretty game in my clique, and we looking for some ballers: alopecia

Nicki Minaj

#26. In ancient societies, the law functioned as a two-edged sword; while standardizing procedure and bringing it out into the open, the law also concentrated power in those few who could read and write.

William J. Bernstein

#27. Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

Noam Chomsky

#28. Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn ...

Terry Pratchett

#29. I want a pit crew ... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.

Dave Barry

#30. My very first publication was an estimator - this was a statistical procedure - a kind of invention. My father got a patent and started a business; it wasn't successful, but maybe I have some of him in me.

Robert J. Shiller

#31. The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method of procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers.

Harry Houdini

#32. Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.

Helene Hanff

#33. I think,' said Arete with warmth, 'that to go to sleep on a problem which one is too lazy to solve is a most foolish procedure.

Robert Graves

#34. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

James D. Bradley

#35. I am not against Botox, and I would never judge anyone else for getting any kind of surgical or non surgical procedure, but I think when you're young there are other ways you can look after your skin ... Botox just wasn't necessary for me at this age.

Kim Kardashian

#36. London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

Renzo Piano

#37. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.

Robert S. Mulliken

#38. Hypnosis not only takes care of your mental health but your physical health too. So if you are seeking for good health gainer approach then you finding ends here in Los Angeles which provides the drug free procedure of loosing and gaining weight.

Masha

#39. WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.

S.A. Tawks

#40. The actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

Ronald Fisher

#41. Parliament is more than procedure - it is the custodian of the nation's freedom.

John Diefenbaker

#42. The charge that the construction of the geologic scale involves circularity has a certain amount of validity ... Thus, the procedure is far from ideal and the geologic ranges are constantly being revised (usually extended) as new occurrences are found.

David M. Raup

#43. Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object.

Werner Heisenberg

#44. So, here's the short version of my predetermined biblical procedure manual all in one place: Alarmed, I resolve to remember who I am. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Stay in the flow - my job is obedience; God's job is results. Shift from an attitude to gratitude. My reactions determine my reach.

Lysa TerKeurst

#45. Since i was the only Black woman sitting in the defendant's chair, of course he identified me. We protested the procedure, but the judge admitted his testimony anyway. We finally did arrange for a lineup, and, of course, the other so-called witnesses picked out another woman.

Assata Shakur

#46. All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

Franz Kafka

#47. Like enthusiasts in general, he made no inquiries into details of procedure.

Thomas Hardy

#48. I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937 - on my one stock investment - because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure ... buying stock in other people's businesses.

Studs Terkel

#49. suppose there was some medical procedure that will provide some modest health benefit but is extremely painful. However, the procedure is administered with a drug that does not prevent the pain but instead erases all memory of the event. Would you be willing to undertake this procedure?

Richard H. Thaler

#50. CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

Hunter Tylo

#51. When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Fred D'Aguiar

#52. You must learn that it is not important for you to ask questions. Nobody needs for you to ask questions. Your job is to follow procedure. Following procedure does not require questions.

Noah Cicero

#53. Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy ... The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.

Ralph W. Moss

#54. Pay-for-procedure or fee-for-service reimbursement rewards doctors and hospitals for volume - not keeping patients healthy or being efficiency. Pay-for-Performance is clearly one tool that can change the incentives to reward quality.

Ron Wyden

#55. It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me
it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

Cassandra Clare

#56. The mark of the procedure. A real one.
Lu is cured.

Lauren Oliver

#57. Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

William Greider

#58. When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

Gary Weiss

#59. Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

Umberto Eco

#60. There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time.

Vironika Tugaleva

#61. The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

#62. In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

Ann Coulter

#63. Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.

Noah Cicero

#64. Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Potter Stewart

#65. Product procedure ... must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans.

Fred Brooks

#66. I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

Dave Barry

#67. Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

John Rawls

#68. Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Kingsley Amis

#69. At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.

Tyler Cowen

#70. It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

George Pataki

#71. The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

Aaron Eckhart

#72. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

Oliver Herford

#73. Johnson saw preoccupation with principle and procedure as a sign of impotence. Such men were "troublemakers," more concerned with appearing forceful than in exercising the real strengths that led to tangible achievement.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#74. There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#75. Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.

Jerome Groopman

#76. Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.

Robert Smithson

#77. Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

Jeff Miller

#78. The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

Morton Feldman

#79. The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.

Lee Krasner

#80. Through repetition of this procedure, you voluntarily create thought habits which are favorable to your efforts to transmute desire into its monetary equivalent.

Napoleon Hill

#81. The difference between the modern laws and those of the past is that wisdom is no longer a respected requirement and it has become secondary in importance to bureaucratic procedure.

Gwendolyn Taunton

#82. If you've got a problem make it a procedure and it won't be a problem anymore.

Ben Feldman

#83. Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.

Ehud Barak

#84. You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

#85. Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

Richard M. Helms

#86. It would seem this is the gift modernity has bestowed upon our generation: the practice of "dating," an awkward procedure where a man and a woman find themselves talking rot to each other in a darkened room. If it were up to me, I would say modernity can keep it, as I want no part.

Suzanne Rindell

#87. The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

Jeff Noon

#88. I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

Donna Karan

#89. Very often, however, this silly procedure is adopted by people who are not silly, but who, consciously or unconsciously, want to destroy Christianity. Such people put up a version of Christianity suitable for a child of six and make that the object of their attack.

C.S. Lewis

#90. If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

George Bernard Shaw

#91. There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

Sigmund Freud

#92. To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today).

Richard Wiseman

#93. To mitigate complications and aid in the procedure of devolution of assets after death, a 'will' has to be well planned and drafted.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#94. The babies had been successfully anesthetized after only a few hours, a complex procedure because of their shared blood vessels.

Ben Carson

#95. While almost every large organization has an appraisal procedure, few of them actually use it.

Peter F. Drucker

#96. Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.

Peter F. Hamilton

#97. It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained ... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

James Worthy

#98. Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

Ludwig Quidde

#99. Success Procedure: Run your day by the clock and your life with a vision.

Zig Ziglar

#100. To become a saint in the Catholic Church, the normal procedure is, beatification, requiring one miracle in your name, then canonization, roughly in five years or longer, to become a saint, a second miracle.

Chris Matthews