Method Quotes · Page 13

Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

— Simone Weil

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

— Confucius

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is…

— Caleb Carr

I discovered my own way, my own method, my own style. Nobody had ever seen it before. Nobody understood it.

— Frank Dux

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Isaac Watts

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of…

— Julian Baggini

We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by…

— George Washington Carver

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that…

— Frank Oppenheimer

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism…

— Thomas Merton

I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns…

— George H. W. Bush

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And…

— Richard Branson

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a…

— Carl Jung

The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue,…

— Isaac Asimov

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to…

— Todd Haynes

There's only one problem that bothers me. And that's something my theorem [ of Impossibility] really doesn't cover. In my theorem I…

— Kenneth Arrow

In terms of - my relationship with so many, many young people. I would - I would guess that there are many…

— Jerry Sandusky

This will include the various methods of internal monitoring, attack and penetration, investigation of suspected hackers or rogue employees - and you…

— Donald Trump

When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered…

— Anonymous

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not…

— George C. Marshall

The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Vera Brittain

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

— George Harrison

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

— Marsden Hartley

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to…

— Emily Browning

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

— Thomas Gray

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.

— Ronald Reagan

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?”

— Brandon Sanderson

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

— E. O. Wilson

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

— Timothy Noah

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

— Wassily Kandinsky

There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.

— Karl Pearson

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

— Oscar Wilde

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a…

— Bernard Lown

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

— Mahatma Gandhi