Top 100 Method Quotes

#1. Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains - do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

Henry Ford

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#2. I'm all for 'tools,' not 'schools,' of therapy. To me, the schools of therapy compete much like religions, or even cults, all claiming to know the cause and to have the best method for treating people.

David D. Burns

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#3. Torture is a good way to get people to talk but a poor method of finding out the truth; people confess whether there is any reality to the confession or not.

-Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

M T Anderson

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#4. No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Van Morrison

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#5. Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection.

Terry Pratchett

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#6. If you follow this method with all problems - i.e., thinking a thing out for yourself before looking up what others have thought - you will soon improve your thinking surprisingly.

Henry Hazlitt

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#7. Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Virginia Woolf

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#8. The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

Fulton J. Sheen

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#9. Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills, and in it you too have the only method of saving your people from enslavement.

Mahatma Gandhi

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#10. A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the
art of persuading.

Blaise Pascal

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#11. The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Sigmund Freud

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#12. It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

Conor Oberst

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#13. 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

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#14. Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

Frederick Lenz

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

Sophie Swetchine

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#16. The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and his understanding. And thereby and therefore the aftermath of this method is reconciliation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#17. Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Yehuda Berg

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#18. Contrast is the dramatist's method.

Lord Dunsany

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#19. Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

Erik Erikson

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#20. Violence is absolutely not our method.

Pope Shenouda III

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#21. In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

Oscar Wilde

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#22. 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

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#23. The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Khloe Kardashian

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#25. The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

Richard Goldschmidt

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#26. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

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#27. 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

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#28. He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

Christopher Moore

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#29. The determinism of the physical laws simply reflects the determinism of the method of inference. This soulless nature of the scientific world need not worry those who are persuaded that the main significances of our environment are of a more spiritual character.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

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#30. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.

Lord Chesterfield

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#31. You must know, then, that there are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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#32. Walk and talk with ST is the most powerful review method in the world.

Peter Rogers

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#33. A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim ... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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#34. By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

Francis Collins

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#35. In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Brandon Sanderson

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#36. The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out.

Thomas Hobbes

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#37. There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.

William Zinsser

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#38. Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.

Isaac Watts

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#39. What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Edward Tufte

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#40. Impact is more important than method.

Tony Andruzzi

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#41. 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

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#42. In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war.

Edward Condon

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#43. An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.

Maria Montessori

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

Neil Postman

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#45. As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex

Sunday Adelaja

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#46. A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

H.G.Wells

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#47. Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

John Dewey

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#48. Wisdom is an artful method - a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.

Gregory Koukl

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#49. My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

Xaviera Hollander

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#50. Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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#51. 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

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#52. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

Peter J. Carroll

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#53. Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.

Johnny Isakson

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#54. We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

G.K. Chesterton

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#55. Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.

Carl Sagan

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#56. In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

Ashley Montagu

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

Bob Newhart

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#58. I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where you're the actor in the song.

Diane Warren

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#60. Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#61. The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

Eric Ries

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#62. This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Margaret Fuller

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#63. Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Wayne Koestenbaum

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#65. 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

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#66. I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

Abbas Kiarostami

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#67. There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive.

Ludwig Von Mises

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

W. Edwards Deming

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#69. Democracy is not a solution but a way of seeking solutions -- not a form of State devoted to this or that particular end...but a form of State devoted, whatever its end may be, to a single means and method of determining that end.

Ernest Barker

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#70. But never being wrong is no proof that
the method of testing is sound for all cases

Scott Adams

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#71. I am really Method-y.

Breckin Meyer

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#72. Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Oswald Chambers

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#73. Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

David Hilbert

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#74. For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#75. 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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#76. Montessori Schools. Dr. Maria Montessori developed the Montessori method of teaching in the early 1900s after observing children's natural curiosity and innate desire to learn.

Daniel H. Pink

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#77. It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

Charles D. Broad

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#78. In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

James Payn

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#79. It is not my design to teach the method that everyone must follow in order to use his reason properly, but only to show the way in which I have tried to use my own.

Rene Descartes

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#80. A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh approach to fiction.

Francine Prose

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#81. The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Emma Goldman

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#82. The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

Frederick Lenz

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#83. I wrapped up my food to take home. "Let's go. We need to discuss your favorite method of dying, because I'm going to kill you. Just so you know."

Claire grinned. "You're welcome."

~Gray

Patricia B. Tighe

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#84. In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

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#85. The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

John Dewey

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#86. There is no one unique method to learn programming, but there are many best ways to deal with it. The one word that is frequently heard whenever it is asked about the best way to learn and be a good programmer is: 'Practice.

Santosh Avvannavar

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#87. The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Bertrand Russell

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#88. Method means primarily a way or path of transit. From this we are to understand that the first idea of method is a progressive transition from one step to another in any course. If in the right course, it will be the true method; if in the wrong, we cannot hope to progress.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#89. 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.

Frederick Sanger

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#90. There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques.

Susan Strasberg

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

Jaggi Vasudev

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#92. 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

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#93. Because in the Renaissance, broadly integrative thought was at a premium; empirical method was in its infancy. Now, with the tools of measurement so highly refined, we produce lots of narrow specialists but fewer expansive thinkers." "Well,

Charles E. Gannon

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#94. My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

Erik Von Markovik

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#95. Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

Chuck Thompson

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#96. It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Charles Dudley Warner

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#97. He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Jane Badler

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#98. I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

Ashton Holmes

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#99. These kids only want to talk about acting method and motivation. in my day all we talked about was screwing and overtime.

Robert Mitchum

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#100. The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.

George Henry Lewes

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