Quotes About Method

First, we can distance through space. The classic move is known, unsurprisingly, as the "fly-on-the-wall technique.

We know we have a method of reaching people, but we have never wanted to preach. We like to make our views palatable, music that is easy to swallow, and I think we've done that.

I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

I remembered Machiavelli, whose rule of Method, rarely stated but always practiced, was that one must think in extremes, which means within a position from which one states borderline theses, or, to make the thought possible, one occupies the place of the impossible.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I'd like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he'd be broke, I'd bring out a different song and immediately he'd receive all the money he needed.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

I'm a process person. Process is a manifestation of values.

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

That was Sophie's trouble. She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

A usable design starts with careful observations of how the tasks being supported are actually performed, followed by a design process that results in a good fit to the actual ways the tasks get performed. The technical name for this method is task analysis. The name for the entire process is human-centered design (HCD), discussed

Using Three Steps Is the Key

Revenge, that deformed child of justice, fed itself with blind desire, incapable of seeing what was ahead, caring nothing about means or method, about what it left destroyed in its wake.

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue.

Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

I am not here to speak the Truth. I am here just to give you a method to perceive it.