A Method Quotes

#1. I'm not a method guy. I can't be bothered to have a method. I just want to be a part of a good movie and I can't stand to be surrounded by morons.

Robert Downey Jr.

#2. The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system.

Herbert Hoover

#3. Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

#4. You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

Conor Oberst

#5. In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

#6. Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.

Rashida Jones

#7. The more restricted a method, the lesser the opportunity for one's individual freedom of expression.

Bruce Lee

#8. Shamanism is not a religion. It's a method. And when this method is practiced with humility, reverence and self-discipline, the shaman's path can become a way of life.

Hank Wesselman

#9. The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive
substitute for war.

Vera Brittain

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

William Golding

#11. When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Albert Camus

#12. Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart.

Cyndi Lee

#13. I believe that the entire effort of modern society should be concentrated on the endeavor to outlaw war as a method of the solution of problems between nations.

Douglas MacArthur

#14. 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.

John Dewey

#15. It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.

Herbert Bayard Swope

#16. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Camille Paglia

#17. Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

Rita Rudner

#18. The line between actual killing and verbal, symbolic, or imaginary violence is thin and permeable. The threat of violence is a method of forceful coercion, even if no blood is actually shed.

John J. Collins

#19. The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.

Wael Ghonim

#20. There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.'

Thomas More

#21. There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Francis Beaumont

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

John F. Kennedy

#23. Is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.

Octavio Paz

#24. I think it is very important to be a method actor.

T. J. Miller

#25. It was then that Doc devised a method for getting revenge on a bank if anyone should ever want to. 'Rent a safety deposit box,' he said, 'then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months.

John Steinbeck

#26. I used to think there was a scientific way to do things. Like a proper way to answer a question or that kind of stuff. It's like, there's not! There's not a method, there's not a science to it.

Hunter Hayes

#27. I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. 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.

Walter J. Phillips

#29. Changing a planning tool or a method won't create significant change in the results we're getting in our lives - although the implied promise is that it will. It's not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it's questioning the whole assumption of control.

Stephen R. Covey

#30. We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#31. Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

Carroll Quigley

#32. He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore.

Jack London

#33. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#35. Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Edwin Land

#37. Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

Megan Fox

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

Stephen Gardiner

#39. Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Thom Mayne

#40. Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#41. Religion to me was only something to be used and abused, as it had done nothing for me other than give me pain. Religion for me was a method used to gain an extra bottle of wine or a nice meal.

Stephen Richards

#42. I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

Carice Van Houten

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

Jane Addams

#44. There's a method aspect to Campbell Scott character and he really wants to get into his character and he wants to cast to go on a fast so that by the time the play opens nobody's eaten in three days because he wants the audience to feel the pain from the stage.

Denis Leary

#45. I could have easily got T-Pain or anybody like that, but let me just get somebody very left. That'll wake them up. Gaga. She's never done a rap record before. Pay attention. It's a method to my madness.

Wale

#46. 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.

Huston Smith

#47. I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there had better be somewhere in it a method for handling fortune and chance so as to best provoke the most complicated, involved, and glorious refractions of what's possible.

Jesse Ball

#48. Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

Vsevolod Pudovkin

#49. That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it ...

Julia Kristeva

#50. 'Studying the Way' is just a figure of speech, a method of arousing people's interest in the early stages of their development. In fact, the Way is not something which can be studied. Study leads to the retention of concepts, and so the Way is entirely misunderstood

Huangbo Xiyun

#51. Nietzsche: A poet with a philosophy. A system without a method. A mustache with a man.

Eric Jarosinski

#52. I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

Oscar Wilde

#53. In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

Brander Matthews

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

Poppy Montgomery

#55. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#56. A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

Robert Genn

#57. I wouldn't say I'm a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I'm playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.

Sean Bean

#58. I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

George Clooney

#59. So in a way, capitalism was a method for people to keep connected. That kind of glued people together, gave them a better way of getting one another to do things than just using flat-out force.

Chris Weitz

#60. Love wasn't to be measured, much less restricted, by methodology. Love wasn't a method. Love was a faculty of the highest order, imagined or unimagined. Love wasn't an activity. Love was an experience. Love was the second coming of innocence.

Rob Inclan

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#62. Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

John Maynard Keynes

#63. Conveying information that a method is stable or unstable is one thing; attempting to control how others use it is quite another.

Sandi Metz

#64. I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.

Karen Gillan

#65. Solution - A method of fixing a problem or situation. Solution is a positive Netiquette Word.

David Chiles

#66. A good designer is not the one who best follows the prescriptive steps of a method or technique, or the one who knows "the solution" in advance. Rather, a good designer
can approach, appreciate, and assess a complex and unique design situation.

Jonas Lxf6wgren

#67. If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Richard Stallman

#68. I've always done method acting. I'm a method actor, and I've done that for years. I never did acting and decided to take it seriously because all the parts people want me to do were playing the pretty role. If I want to play someone pretty, I'll play myself.

Jessica White

#69. The technique of positive thinking is not a technique that transforms you. It is simply repressing the negative aspects of your personality. It is a method of choice. It cannot help awareness; it goes against awareness. Awareness is always choiceless.

Rajneesh

#70. What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

George Polya

#71. The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more ... with a method linked only to my thought ... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

Pablo Picasso

#72. 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.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#73. Happiness is not a destination, it's a method of travel.

San Juan De La Cruz

#74. I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.

Lori Goldstein

#75. Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

David Bentley Hart

#76. This, in essence, is the problem with the scientific view of reality. Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something - reality - that may not be understood at all.

Michael Crichton

#77. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Milton Friedman

#78. I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is to touch upon the systematics of prayer and on how we arrive at a method of achieving spiritual coherence in our lives.

Richard Grossman

#79. I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.

Dorie Greenspan

#80. There is a method to the madness when it comes to placing everything in your refrigerator.

Khloe Kardashian

#81. I don't think ethical people deal with intimidation as a method to achieve success. Undermining someone's self-esteem isn't a method to achieve success.

Dominique Moceanu

#82. Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#83. There was a time when educators became famous for providing reasons for learning; now they become famous for inventing a method.

Neil Postman

#84. A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Dorothy Hodgkin

#85. I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.

Jaggi Vasudev

#86. I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

#87. I'm not what you'd call a Method actor.

Bob Newhart

#88. You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.

W. Edwards Deming

#89. Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

George Horne

#90. Yes to fingerfucking the dialectic! Or to using the dialectic as a method of fingerfucking the binary!

Wayne Koestenbaum

#91. Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Karel Capek

#92. In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

Will Rogers

#93. Our essential task is to deliver a method of stalking shadow attention so as to free humanity from that influence.

Lujan Matus

#94. Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies and other businesses a method of hedging against adverse price changes. Instead, they've become just another Wall Street plaything.

Gary Weiss

#95. Life has gotten too much. I have no problem with dying as I am. I don't have the energy to go out and find a method to help me take my life. But quietly accepting death, that I can handle.

Haruki Murakami

#96. ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

Ambrose Bierce

#97. He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

Herb Alpert

#98. A goal without a method is nonsense.

W. Edwards Deming

#99. I'm a method actor.

Seann William Scott

#100. 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.

Jonathan Swift