Method Quotes

1671 quotes by 1198 authors

Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that… — David Hilbert
Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though… — Glenn Gould
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,… — Oscar Wilde
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect… — Derek Bailey
I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship… — Issey Miyake
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus… — Henry M. Morris
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it. — Henry Ford
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns â€¦it… — Ralph Linton
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it… — Clifford Geertz
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an… — Bertrand Russell
Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread, and most complete… — Heber J. Grant
The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition. — Albert Einstein
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary. — Dai Vernon
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in… — Thomas More
We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them… — P.J. O'Rourke
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was… — Rudolf Hess

Who Wrote These Method Quotes

1,198 authors contributed a total of 1,671 Method Quotes, led by these top contributors: