Method Quotes

The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Students are often taught when to use a particular method and how to use it, but not how to effectively write up their research plan and then later their research results.

It’s the method of consumption, not what’s on the plate.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.

I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

I'm not much of a Method actress, so even though my character in The Ghost Writer was quite dark and bad-tempered, I could only do that if I was seeming quite perky.

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

Every man is a new method.

There is arguably something wrong with a method of persuasion that cannot pass the test of publicity.

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

In this complex world, the scientific method, and the consequences of the scientific method are central to everything the human race is doing and to wherever we are going.

Yoga is the method to bring or uncover the union that exists. That all things are relative and are in relationship and that nothing is singular or by itself.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

Even though I teach with 35mm, my method takes people by surprise, because it isn't fast, and it isn't about hardware or software, or even great results. It's about great process.

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.

And, of course, method is very important as is a high-quality specialist (trainer) working with you to keep you going in the right direction for your improvement and to help create results.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

Since I'm not a method actor, I don't actually feel angry or feel that I'm being mean, I just do it because I'm acting the part, doing my job and playing the role.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind.

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.