Method Quotes · Page 28

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find…

— Agatha Christie

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be…

— Jane Austen

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the…

— Robert Ressler

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”

— Werner Heisenberg

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need…

— Vernon Howard

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

— James Payn

I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perform anonymous service. Whenever we do good for others anonymously, our sense of intrinsic worth and self-respect increases. ... Selfless service has…

— Stephen Covey

It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles…

— Ludwig von Mises

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot…

— Satyajit Ray

If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the…

— John Yoo

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a…

— Anthony Burgess

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method…

— Neil Gaiman

The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate',…

— Sigmund Freud

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to…

— John Dewey

We have to evolve means for obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption…

— Nikola Tesla

Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the…

— Scott Adams

Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but…

— Paul Feyerabend

Pickett excused himself, watchful of Longstreet. Pickett was always saying something to irritate somebody, and he rarely knew why, so his method…

— Michael Shaara

There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean…

— Thomas Ferguson

The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who…

— C. V. Wedgwood

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

— Robert Wilson

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow

— Horatio Nelson Jackson

I have had hundreds and hundreds of stroke cases. My methods cured them--when they were so stiff they were almost dead.

— Richard M. Schulze

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,”

— Oscar Wilde

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

— Leo Tolstoy

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

— Dai Vernon

What I wanna do with Methods is keep that around as sorta my freak out, creative free for all- anything goes project.

— Tommy Lee

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

— Bruce Lee

There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

— Herman Melville

Walking is my main method of relaxation. I don't go over my lines or try to solve the world's problems, I just…

— Kevin Whately

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

— Michael Franti

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.

— Elizabeth Hawes

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it…

— Jean Cocteau

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

— Roderick E. Stevens

Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had.

— Tim Ferriss