Method Quotes

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

Improvisation is a compositional method.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.

Art and science have their meeting point in 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.

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.

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.

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.