Method Quotes

The deeper our insight into the methods of nature . . . the more incredible the popular Christianity seems to us.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

There are two differing approaches and they have different virtues, the method of talent management and recruitment.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Every time you sort of let go of the bar, you knew someone was there to catch you, and vice versa. And, I mean, come on. It's Method Man. It's been a dream to meet him forever.

Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

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.

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just enjoy the scenery and the wildlife.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

Good morning. You have a moment?" It's clever the way she says it, not as a question. I would have to contradict her in order to have my moment back. I make a note to use the method in the future.

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

The method of electrocution would be much better than the old method of hanging.

Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

I've never had a method of working. I change according to circumstances; I don't employ any particular technique or style. I make films instinctively, more with my belly than with my brain.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.