Method Quotations | Page 2

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

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

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.

I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

In the beginning of the year 1665, I found the method of approximating series and the rule for reducing any dignity of any binomial into such a series.

The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.

Obama has figured out the best method to prepare the way for his verbal Houdini acts: Use political noise as the tune-up din before the aria. Perhaps his body temperature is so low, it sometimes takes him too long to break out the song.

I think it is absolutely crazy in this day and age that I have to go through a trial and error method to see if my child is allergic to an antibiotic or peanuts. I should just know.

Most American actors are taught the Stanislavsky method... Method acting, but I really think that as an actor you have to develop what works for you. There is really not one way of doing anything. There are many ways of achieving the same goal.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

I think in the past, around the time that method acting became so prevalent, it used to be that American actors were thought to be the kind that would work more from the inside out, and that the English actors worked more from the outside in.

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Angelina Jolie was always a Method actress. She'd been nominated for Golden Globes before she ever did 'Tomb Raider.'

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.

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

Life insurance is an important method of estate transfer to at least consider because death benefits can pass to your heirs essentially free of taxes.

No one ever wants to see moose hit, but at least now we'll see a more effective method of distributing the meat.

One method I messed with this fall is using a headlight, like a nightlight that coon hunters wear, that goes on your head or hat. What you do with this technique is scan back and forth with the headlight using a red lens. You can pick up the eyes quite a ways out there.

I have been troubled with more and more allegations, revelations, coming about his style, his method of operation,

I don't know whether it's digital effects or if they trained a baby to bite through steel. I'm not sure what method was used.

Last year we called for the government to put in place a rigorous method of monitoring the continuing safety of those returned to Zimbabwe. The government must now show they have done this and not simply wasted the past few months. Otherwise, we will not know the fate of the people sent back and what the Mugabe regime does to them.

When you come up in the art world, whatever's in the air, the issues of the moment, end up becoming part of the working method or modus operandi of how you think about doing a painting. And I came up at a time when-actually painting was dead when I came up. Sculpture sort of ruled.

Lethal injection is the only method being used now, for all practical purposes. The chemicals are almost the same in all the states, and they're being challenged in all the states.

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

Mr. McIntosh developed a method of heating a hinge without using a flame, which allowed him to prevent damage to the fiberglass. This process is much more efficient and effective than the old process and is estimated to save approximately $36,000 per year in hardware costs, reduces technician frustration, and decreases the repair turn around time for the enclosures.

Measuring waist circumference may be a simple method that women can identify themselves as being at increased heart-attack risk and empower them to seek further evaluation and possible treatment from their doctors.

Most people are used to the T.V. comedy method of one joke every 18 seconds. And that's why it's not funny... There's no time for anything to develop.

Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

She's 20 years old. If she got caught up in the moment, she got caught up in the moment. It's not the end of the world for me. When I saw her go off the jump, I didn't see anything weird about it. I didn't go, like, 'Oh, no!' Especially because Nate and Seth grab method almost every run.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.So plain the advantages of machination It constitutes a moral obligation, And honest wolves who think upon't with loathing Feel bound to don the sheep's deceptive clothing. So prospers still the diplomatic art, And Satan bows, with hand upon his heart. --R.S.K.

Many people, including the president, are concerned about destroying life while trying to save it. We're showing a method by which you can create stem cells without destroying the embryo.

Since brain activation is arguably less susceptible to being controlled by an individual, our research will hopefully eliminate the shortcomings of the conventional polygraph test and produce a new method of objective lie detection that can be used reliably in a courtroom or other setting.

Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of aviation and about a tenth of trucking. But it's not benign, because there's so much of it. So shipping emissions are about three to four percent, almost the same as aviation's.

Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power?

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... And think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries... Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences ...

I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably underlay the wheels within wheels aspect.

He just had a method that he used that allowed him to drive off in brand new vehicles in our community and then to sell those, mark those as used or damaged vehicles and then sell those to unsuspecting victims.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

I am suspicious of teachers who claim to have invented the only successful method of bringing out the best in young performers, of theorists who claim to have invented a unique approach to analysis, or of historians who wish to reduce all the developments of the musical style of the past entirely to the determinism of social conditions.

From a parent's perspective, they would think their child would never ride a bike, ... What has not been understood is that these children can indeed ride bikes; we just need a proper method for teaching them.

I can give you 100 dentists who say they've got the best method for reducing concussions. Many times I've had them in my office. One brought me a box of cookies. My response to that person and to 20 others is that I'm intrigued, but it's your job to prove to me your idea does what you say it does.

I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.

For this method to work, we've got to get the roots in contact with the contamination. Sod-forming grasses work well in certain situations, because they have a large root surface in contact with the soil.

Cellular technology is emerging as a new high-speed method of connecting to the Internet and we believe over time will become increasingly important for connecting PCs to the Internet.

Buried (in the method by which hospitals set fees) is this array of cross-subsidies that lets our health-care system train young doctors, conduct research and care for the uninsured.

I don't agree with the concept that was presented. I will be voting no. There is no real accounting method for this.

Basically you're talking about business method patents and whether they're allowable. This whole area of what is suitable for monopoly protection is a fraught one. There's a lot of stuff that shouldn't be protected.

We've found the computer method can be very effective.

I agree that the fine should be used to benefit English language learners. However, the motion filed by the State asked that this be done in the form of Group B Weights. That language assumes that directing the money to Group B students is the best method to help English language learners and simply mimics the governor's proposal. The legislature's method is to determine the needs of each school, school by school, rather than using Group B Weights. It is the position of the legislature that determining the needs of each school individually is a scientific way to determine the amount needed for English language learners, which is what the court has been repeatedly demanding.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.

Hedge funds have used listing as a method of fund raising, with varied level of success. It certainly broadens the reach to investors.

His method for dealing with that was whenever he would find that he had gotten one he would just delete it.

Going to a one-plane swing method has made me a much more consistent player. Even when I'm not on, I never get very far off.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

There is a method which distinguishes SF from fantasy, though a lot of the science fiction written does not go by that method, and some fantasy does.

When they log onto the Internet, all they're doing is revealing the winning combination of numbers. The method to reveal (them) is merely entertainment.

My office address and email address are somewhat public info at this point. It was by this method I was contacted for TV Road Trip.

I went straight method for my part, ... My character and Morgan's character go through an interesting arc. A lot of my scenes are with Morgan, and what I value and look up to are his subtleties.

Local governments must have more authority to address local and regional water concerns. The one-size-fits-all method where water is controlled from Phoenix is outdated and very ineffective.

My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.

My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

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

Laguna Beach's' winning blend of fly-on-the-wall teen drama and artfully shot entertainment has truly connected with our audience. '8th & Ocean' will build upon this distinctive method of storytelling with a compelling cast of models striving to succeed on the sands of South Beach.

Mass-mailing worms will often leverage issues in Office as part of their method of propagation. As such, I strongly advise that these patches be installed as soon as possible -- particularly within the enterprise where the e-mailing of Office documents is more commonplace and expected.

Marlon's going to school to learn the Method was like sending a tiger to jungle school.

That doesn't mean it's not an important option. Not every method fits every woman. Some women do like it.

Our patents are very broad and very deep, and we have the only patents that anybody has that are issued in this space. What we think we're building for, ensuring for and scaling for, is for Pay By Touch to be the method that people use for biometrics, for payments or loyalty transaction.

Regrettably, beating has become a typical method of dealing with subordinates in the military.

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

It is my method to apply tension at all times.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Law enforcement authorities have told us they need a nationwide method to gather and review these types of Internet-related complaints,

Pakistan has played terrifically well in the last 12 months but we definitely need to find a method to beat India in the one-day game to restore our confidence.

PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in ""reading character"" in the wrinkles made by closing the hand. The pretence is not altogether false; character can really be read very accurately in this way, for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word ""dupe."" The imposture consists in not reading it aloud.