Method Quotes - Page 27

• Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Teacher, Students, Socratic

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• I played Lucky in Waiting for Godot at Yale and it was a thing that Stanislavski talks about: he says you don't need his 'method' if you can count on your inspiration and it was a moment of inspiration that came to me, not in rehearsal but on stage. It hit me right there in the middle of the play and it was great - it travelled into immediate communication.

  Sam Waterston

  Communication, Inspiration, Yale

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Often men believe women are the same, and once they figure what works for one woman they apply that same method to all the other women they are intimate with, and that's one of the major problems.

  Gail Saltz

  Believe, Men, Problem

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• I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

  Agnes Denes

  Wall, Want, Six

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• To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  United States, World, Proposal

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• I'm not a method actress.

  Khandi Alexander

  Actresses

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• In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Art, Lying

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.612, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Mind, Important

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• Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Beauty, Art, Curves

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• Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood.

  Joseph Addison

  Writing, Men, Ordinary

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.8

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• ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fool, Incapacity, Distinction

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.51, 谷月社

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• There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, Purpose, Strange

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

  William Blake

  House, Generations, Saws

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'A Memorable Fancy' plates 15-17

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• Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Snakes, Enemy, Wish

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• The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.

  Pablo Picasso

  Goal, Useless, Paint

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• Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Expression, Ideas, Progress

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• The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Mind, Sorrow

  James Freeman Clarke (1871). “Go up higher; or, Religion in common life (sermons).”, p.28

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• Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Fans, Doe

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• Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Secret, Way

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Men, Imagination

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• I read an article on me once that described my machine-method of silk-screen copying and painting: 'What a bold and audacious solution, what depths of the man are revealed in this solution!' What does that mean?

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Men, Copying

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• And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, People, Age

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.

  Neil Postman

  Ideas, Profound, Important

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• Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another.

  Thomas Sowell

  Financial, Economics, Trading

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.79, Basic Books

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• Science is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something ? reality ? that may not be understood at all.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, May, Measurement

  "Travels". Book by Michael Crichton, Postscript, 1988.

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