Method Quotes

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

Impact is more important than method.

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth is doomed to failure equally.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly

And you get Thomas Paine, who's the least religious Founding Father saying, you've got to teach creation science in the classroom. Scientific method demands that.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.

Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors.

The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man and gradually works its way out. And it builds a nation from the bottom up.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

I'm very proud of my pro-life record, and I've always adopted the idea that, the position that the method of conception doesn't change the definition of life.

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed.

Whatever the method, the purpose of quieting the mind is always the same... to step out of you own way and touch a Universal Oneness with all things.

Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move.

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.