Method Quotes · Page 27

The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.

— George Soros

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I guess I'm probably a Method actor; I don't know... I just think of it as staying in the zone.

— Michael Keaton

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

— William S. Burroughs

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea…

— Bram Stoker

“Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I have my method when it comes to my work. I don't think about who has done what, rather what I am…

— Diana Penty

The method of estimating the potency of insulin solutions is based on the effect that insulin produces upon the blood sugar of…

— Frederick Banting

Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise…

— Max Weber

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in…

— Che Guevara

Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the…

— Chris Crutcher

Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards…

— Friedrich Kellner

Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the…

— Anonymous

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They…

— Frederick Lenz

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen” navigation, which was…

— Douglas Adams

I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two…

— Catharine Beecher

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency.…

— Richard P. Feynman

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the…

— Andrew Mellon

Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees…

— Burton Malkiel

Even if the constants which economists wish to determine were less numerous, and the method of experiment more accessible, we should still…

— Arthur Cecil Pigou

Science is a way of getting knowledge. It's a method. It's a method that really relies on making mistakes. We propose ideas,…

— Sean M. Carroll

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

— Mason Cooley

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am…

— John Cage

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

— George Bernard Shaw

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

I used to really like Method Man and Redman for some reason. And Fabolous. A lot of New York rappers, too. Cam'ron.…

— Ski Mask the Slump God

The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we…

— Rene Descartes

But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

— Elvis Costello

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

— Carroll Quigley

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

— Lawren Harris

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

— Sidney Hook

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the…

— Antonin Scalia

The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

— Warren Farrell

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

— Alan Watts

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put…

— Jane Smiley

There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

— Mahatma Gandhi