Method Quotes

We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

If you want to meet girls, by far the best method is to carry a baby or a puppy.

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.

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

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

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

Tantric Zen, at first, does not appear to have a method. In Tantric Zen, you could meditate on a Brillo box or you could meditate on the clear light of reality.

Dimensionality only exists because the mind can perceive life that way, but that's only one simple method that the mind has for perceiving itself, for perceiving life.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

The planes of light exist. Yoga is a method of unifying the energies of the body, the mind, and the spirit and directing them towards infinity, the planes of light.

Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

Most of these pictures, taken while travelling, were developed on the mantelpiece of a hotel room, which proves that the method is easy enough to carry out.

I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well is shared in some magical way.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

There is no method except yourself.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs why.

Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.

Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

The abundance, the solidity, and the splendor of the results already achieved by science are well fitted to inspire us with a cheerful confidence in the soundness of its method.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.