Method Quotes

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If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some… — Chogyam Trungpa
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the… — Ludwig von Mises
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method. — Joshua Reynolds
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a… — Maurice de Vlaminck
I have no rules and no methods... no secrets. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no… — Richard Cobden
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.… — John Zachary Young
A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but… — Bill Gothard
Downey Savings & Loan receives high ratings from its customers in California in areas related to personal service and for being customer focused. Downey customers… — Jeffery Taylor
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only… — Lafcadio Hearn
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. — Richard Courant
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it. — Georges Seurat
When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in… — Giorgio Vasari
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by… — B. H. Liddell Hart
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method… — Arlen Specter
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation. — Walter J. Phillips
Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship result… — Walter J. Phillips
I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method. — Walter J. Phillips
The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging… — Walter J. Phillips
It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as… — Walter J. Phillips

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