Quotes About Method

W. Edwards Deming wrote, "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you are doing.

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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

I'm analytical as an actor, and one of the things Quentin did was free me from that.

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive.

The method by which the fool arrives at his folly was as dear to him as the ultimate wisdom of the wise.

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.

La insinceridad es un método con que multiplicar nuestras personalidades

We look to the archaeologist for the materials, to the artist for the method.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

The method which I advocate is what, I believe, the advertisers call Direct Suggestion, sir, consisting as it does of driving an idea home by constant repetition. You may have had experience of the system?" "You mean they keep on telling you that some soap or other is the best, and after a bit you come under the influence and charge round the corner and buy a cake?

Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.

You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.

I reveled in class discussion and the Socratic method of drawing substance out of calcified minds untrained to think.

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

But good farming is first and last an art, a way of doing and making that involves human histories, cultures, minds, hearts, and souls. It is not the application by dullards of methods and technologies under the direction of a corporate-academic intelligentsia.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.

Here, my good man. Could you tell me whereabouts Horatio Street...good heavens. Thus called upon, he took courage; the sursum corda of an extravagant belch straightened him upright, and he answered, --Whfffck? Whether this was an approach to discussion he had devised himself, or a subtle adaptation of the Socratic method of questioning perfected in the local athenaeums which he attended until closing time, was not to be known; for the answer was, --Stand aside.

The means have murdered the end.