Method Quotes

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry Mayhew

Knowledge, Using, Mode

At all times it is better to have a method.
Mark Caine

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
Elisha Cuthbert

Time, Good, Actor

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan

Far, Punishment, Effective

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.
Clifford D. Simak

Technology, Path, Found

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.
Anthony Burgess

Country, Try, Sense

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.
Chris Daughtry

End, Guitar, Sometimes

The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.
Rick Ross

Education, Best, May

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.
Joshua Foer

Mind, Remember, Whatever

I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
Donald Pleasence

Character, After, Lines

As a reward for their efforts, however, those early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, thrown to the lions, tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
Josh McDowell

Death, Used, Stop

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Judy Collins

Society, Fight, Down

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.
Clifford Geertz

Great, Real, Matter

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

Future, Technology, Through

I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy, Seriously, Debate

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
Agnes Macphail

Change, Marriage, Work

Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.
Shay Mitchell

Emotional, Night, Off

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.
Anne Tyler

Give, Thought, Living

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
Joshua Lederberg

Powerful, Living, Wanted

I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
Ellen Barkin

Work, Hope, Mother

I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
Ellen Barkin

May, Acting, Whatever

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.
Andy Serkis

Heart, Soul, Themselves

My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the universe, including its origin, using the laws of nature. But that still leaves the laws unexplained.
Paul Davies

Nature, Power, Feeling

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.
Mark Ruffalo

School, Idea, Homework

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.
King Hussein I

Great, Spirit, Rights

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
Kary Mullis

Creative, Desire, Scientific

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton

Time, Remember, Said

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

Truth, True, Scientific

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

Thought, Principle, Conduct

That's the method: restructure the world we live in in some way, then see what happens.
Frederik Pohl

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