Method Quotes

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

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.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

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.

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.

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.