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Quotes About Method

The true method of knowledge is experiment.
~ Michael Pollan
I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.
~ Jill Scott
If there's one thing Nawaz sir taught me, it's how to just relax. He's not your method actor who will ask not to be disturbed on set if there's a serious scene to shoot. He just comes and does his thing.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
I use a method approach to all my sitcom work.
~ Casey Wilson
I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.
~ Thomas Horn
If I'm trying to put size on for a role, then I don't do much running.
~ Edward Norton
Stanley Kubrick made Shelly Duvall go crazy during 'The Shining.' It's like one of the best performances ever. Maybe he shouldn't have gone that far, but I love that movie.
~ Jonah Hill
The most important lesson: that each ingredient should be cooked separately.
~ Bill Buford
Do not proceed with a mess; messes just grow with time.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
~ Bram Stoker
Oh, very well," he said,"let her come in, by all means, but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place." His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. When he had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully, "Let the lady come in
~ Bram Stoker
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
~ T. S. Eliot
Las costumbres, Andrée, son formas concretas del ritmo, son la cuota del ritmo que nos ayuda a vivir. No era tan terrible vomitar conejitos una vez que se había entrado en el ciclo invariable, en el método.
~ Julio Cortazar
Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive. Vomiting bunnies wasn't so terrible once one had gotten into the unvarying cycle, into the method. You will want to know why all this work, why
~ Julio Cortazar
what is elsewhere fragmentary here becomes systematic; what is instinct becomes conscious technique; the spiritual labrynth of those minds that achieve real elation through the workings of some "grace" (since it is only accidentally and by means of suggestions, fears, hopes, and raptures that they discover the right way) is replaced by a calm and uniform light, present even in abysmal depths, and by a method that has no need of external means.
~ Julius Evola
There may not be time.' Strax said, 'to conduct a full surveillance regime according to prescribed regulations in order to formulate a coherent strategy of the best method to effect entry.' 'That's true,' Madame Vastra agreed. 'So I suggest you simply break down this door.
~ Justin Richards
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
~ Larry Bishop
A curious fact surfaces in reading these Elizabethan cookbooks. The English did not thicken their sauces with flour. According to some scholars, it was actually a French chef, François Pierre de la Varenne, who first used that method in his 1661 cookbook, Le Cuisinier François. The English chefs of the time clearly shunned La Varenne's method of thickening, and it does not enter into English cookery books for at least fifty years.
~ Francine Segan
The Lord has a unique way of preparing His servants for His work. It's one that involves transformation. And transformation always involves emptying, suffering, and loss. Humanity's way is to hand you a method. Divinity's way is to hand you a cross.
~ Frank Viola
Werner Heisenberg put it, "what we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." Heisenberg, a German physicist, made this observation regarding quantum mechanics, but it holds equally true for explorations of the animal
~ Frans de Waal
What we observe is not nature in itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. —Werner Heisenberg (1958)1
~ Frans de Waal
This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
What is a government but an institutionalized method of making sure somebody else does all the work?
~ Brandon Sanderson
No job security," Denth said, leaning back in his chair. "The kinds of things we do, they tend to be dangerous and unpredictable. Our employers have a habit of dying off on us." "Though usually not from the chills," Tonk Fah noted. "Swords tend to be the method of choice.
~ Brandon Sanderson