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Quotes About Method

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.
~ Poppy Montgomery
My methods are all because of my experiences as a nanny. Parents have asked, 'How do you have an understanding of this when you have no children?' Maybe I just do and that's how it is. It all comes from my personality and what I believe in.
~ Jo Frost
This method of depositing protective layers avoided exposing materials to air and impurities that could cause defects. It was a major advance in reliability
~ Chris Miller
Through a specific method of dividing forty - nine yarrow stalks (stems of the milfoil plant), we can receive answers to our questions, obtain direction, anticipate changes, avoid dangers, and take the correct action to bring about the most beneficial results.
~ Chris Prentiss
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one. This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.
~ Christopher Hitchens
He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.
~ Christopher Moore
In contrast, Midgley's TEL patent—titled, unhelpfully, "Method and means for using motor fuels"—filed on April 15, 1922 (and issued on February 23, 1926), gave the company full control of an effective low-volume additive that could be dispensed at a very low cost: a penny's worth of TEL would prevent knocking from consuming a gallon of gasoline (fig. 2.3).
~ Vaclav Smil
There is a way of avoiding which resembles seeking.
~ Victor Hugo
you how to can salmon. You need to
~ Kristin Hannah
For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.
~ Catherine Garrett
result has been a far greater knowledge, amassed in this participatory method, than anyone had ever dreamed possible, balanced by collective and professional procedures for sorting through the data for obviously wrong or misguided reportings. If professional astronomers can adopt such a de-centered method for assembling information, certainly college and high school teachers can develop a pedagogical method also based on collective checking, inquisitive skepticism, and group
~ Cathy N. Davidson
It is surely good method to posit our ignorance of a dazzling, familiar and yet ununderstood word, by treating it formally as an unknown term, and trying to define it by context
~ Giorgio De Santillana
The only way to be sure of never losing the ones you love. The Dahmer Method. Extreme, but effective.
~ Glen Duncan
Adapting a recipe's ingredients is completely in your hands. But the method is what really matters. The techniques in cooking are rigorous and imperative: They are your passport to a successful dish. Cooks must practice, practice, practice. Anyone can learn, but you need focus, proper understanding, and to go at the right pace, not running before you can walk.
~ Gordon Ramsay
Childish and immaterial as the topic was, the quality of their reasoning was still more childish and immaterial. In truth, there was very little reasoning or none at all. Their method was one of assertion, assumption, and denunciation
~ Jack London
I had contrived a method by which a transient might locate the best restaurant in town. He must find the local bookshop and take advice from the proprietor, who infallibly will possess this information. Why the bookshop? Because bookshop owners are usually discriminating gourmets without too much money.
~ Jack Vance
One powerful method for getting at purpose is the five whys. Start with the descriptive statement We make X products or We deliver X services, and then ask, Why is that important? five times. After a few whys, you'll find that you're getting down to the fundamental purpose of the organization. We
~ James C. Collins
Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.
~ James Gleick
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.
~ Karel Capek
Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the greatest songwriters ever. I don't know if people understand how powerful his songs are and the simplicity and genius behind them, from 'Redemption Song' to 'Is This Love?' and 'I Shot the Sheriff.'
~ Bruno Mars
When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.
~ Aamir Khan
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
~ Steve Zahn
This was the first day of our beginning to take up plants: we had much pleasure in collecting them for the natives offered their assistance and perfectly understood the method of taking them up and pruning them.
~ William Bligh