These method quotes will inspire you. Method, a procedure or process for attaining an object.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging method quotes, method sayings, and method proverbs.
Best Method Quotes
- “Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.” ~ Burton-Hill
- “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it’s a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.” ~ Charles Ruff
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“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” ~ Werner Heisenberg
- “Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.” ~ Roy Romer
- “A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.” ~ Ray Stannard Baker
- “I wouldn’t say I’m a method actor. I do research when I feel I don’t have enough experience for the part I’m playing.” ~ Tim Robbins
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“The science-fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.” ~ Frederik Pohl
- “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.” ~ Norman Jewison
- “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.” ~ George Stigler
- “I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.” ~ Edward Sapir
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“The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.” ~ Stanley Smith Stevens
- “There is no method but to be very intelligent.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- “I’m a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.” ~ George Clooney
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“A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.” ~ Ulysses S. Grant
- “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.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.” ~ Jack Kevorkian
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“I don’t know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.” ~ Vivien Leigh
- “The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.” ~ Bret Easton Ellis
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“I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).” ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
- “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.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.” ~ Henry Mayhew
- “Method acting is a label I don’t really understand because there’s a method to everybody’s acting.” ~ Dougray Scott
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“I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.” ~ Charley Pride
- “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.” ~ Ninette de Valois
- “The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear — and even, in certain respects, would be — the most modern of critical movements.” ~ Paul de Man
- “Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it’s a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.” ~ Bernard M. Oliver
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“Methods are the masters of masters.” ~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
- “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” ~ Herman Melville
- “I am the primitive of the method I have invented.” ~ Paul Cezanne
- “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” ~ Paul Rand
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“But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.” ~ Michael Shermer
- “The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.” ~ Henry A. Wallace
- “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.” ~ Henry M. Morris
- “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.” ~ Max Born
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“We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.” ~ Kary Mullis
- “What this means is that we shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.” ~ Edward Tufte
- “Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.” ~ Arthur Erickson
- “The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.” ~ William Godwin
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“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.” ~ Thomas Huxley
- “Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “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.” ~ Giuseppe Mazzini
- “Improvisation is a compositional method.” ~ Evan Parker
- “Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.” ~ Caleb Carr
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“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” ~ William Blake
- “The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “This means that to entrust to science – or to deliberate control according to scientific principles – more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.” ~ Friedrich August von Hayek
- “People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.” ~ Muhammad Iqbal
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“Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.” ~ Benjamin Cardozo
- “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
- “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.
- “The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.” ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
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“Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.” ~ Emma Goldman
- “Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Makeup something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.” ~ Constantin Stanislavski
- “The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that’s the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.” ~ Aubrey de Grey
- “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.” ~ Joseph Addison
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“Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.” ~ Edwin Land
- “Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.” ~ Quentin Crisp
- “Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.” ~ Harry Houdini
