Method Quotes · Page 25

I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all…

— Jack Johnson

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

— Wilson Greatbatch

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

— Charles Fourier

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

— Konrad Adenauer

Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

— Julia Kristeva

Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do…

— Mamie Van Doren

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers…

— Bertolt Brecht

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum…

— Jeff Hanneman

I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied,…

— Sharon Salzberg

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were…

— Markus Wolf

“I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters…

— Sara Sheridan

The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where…

— John Dewey

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a…

— Sara Sheridan

Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and…

— Vincent de Paul

Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner…

— Roberto Assagioli

Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the…

— Camillo Golgi

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive…

— Paul Feyerabend

Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived…

— Lorenz Oken

A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford…

— Patricia Leavy

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do…

— Pierre Duhem

An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method.

— George Polya

Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.

— Sheng-yen

You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.

— Stephen Covey

Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either.

— Van Dyke Parks

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

— Lilia Shevtsova

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

— Alberto Moravia

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

— George Clooney

“We become what we become by accident, a lot of us. We find a method of being and be that.”

— Gina Wohlsdorf

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

By understanding a machine-oriented language, the programmer will tend to use a much more efficient method; it is much closer to reality.

— Donald Knuth

I think less so now in the industry, but that was a big thing, actors going method, throwing chairs. And I'm like…

— Nicola Coughlan

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.

— Granger Smith

I find it difficult, the method of working in the cycling union, the lack of professionalism.

— Eddy Merckx

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

— Joshua Reynolds