Method Quotes

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People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. — John Jay Chapman
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed… — Agatha Christie
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. — George Clooney
I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks… — Jarvis Cocker
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're… — Tadao Ando
In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a… — Louis Agassiz
Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in chemical ideas, he… — Hermann Kolbe
The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is… — Alfred Tarski
In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and… — Proclus
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus… — Alfred North Whitehead
We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and… — Carl Sagan
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor… — Edward de Bono
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with… — Neville Chamberlain
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the… — Tony Hoare
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the… — John Mott
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne

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