Method Quotes

It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.

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

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.

I know I'm not known as method. By nature I'm not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the incredible and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by 'the scientific method.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them.

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.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.