Method Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

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

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

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

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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.

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

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.