Method Quotes - Page 39

• My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Tyrants, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

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• It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach.

  Antonio Banderas

  Trying, Directors, Different

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• On the set, everybody is different, so you have to deal with different sensibilities. I don't have a method. Usually, I try to have a good connection with the actor that I'm filming. Even a guy who's there with two lines of dialogue, I always try to have a connection with the guy I'm filming, just to make it into a nice, enjoyable moment.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Nice, Two, Guy

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Payment, Taxes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.

  Jeffrey K. Zeig

  Issues, Adults, Metaphor

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• The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.

  Lester Levenson

  Love Is, Receiving Love, Giving

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• How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Agriculture

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

  Ruben Santiago-Hudson

  Actors, Research, Kind

  "Q&A - Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Lt. Charles Dawson)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2013.

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• Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms and unconscious reactions. But it has told us nothing about the reflexes that have built cathedrals, railroads, and fortresses, the instincts that have produced philosophies, poems, and legal systems, the automatisms that have resulted in the growth and decline of empires, the unconscious reactions that are splitting atoms.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Animal, Psychology

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• God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

  Jacob Needleman

  Heart, Men, Ideas

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• The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Views, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Character, Half, Tongue

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.158

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• The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

  Honore de Balzac

  Art, Perfection, Simplicity

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• Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.

  Joseph Addison

  Silly, Opportunity, Men

  Joseph Addison (2010). “Addison's Essays”, p.133, Wildside Press LLC

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• Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

  Rita Rudner

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• The method of democracy is to bring conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

  John Dewey

  Democracy, Special, Conflict

  John Dewey, Debra Morris, Ian Shapiro (1993). “The Political Writings”, p.148, Hackett Publishing

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• If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.

  Lois Wyse

  Believe, Cities, Keys

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• If God allows us to remain Methodist, Baptist, or Episcopalian, it may be on account of the unconverted, that they may be without excuse; that every type of man may be confronted with a corresponding type of doctrine and of method. Surely there are means adapted to your state, and ministries fitted to your peculiar temperament.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Mean, Men, May

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Kindness, Heart, Wish

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). “The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd”, p.135

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• Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Art, Children, Sculpture

  James Freeman Clarke (1898). “Ten Great Religions: A comparison of all religions. 1898, c1883”

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• To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Poverty, Poor, Certain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Essays”, p.30

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• Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Ideas, Doctrine

  Indira Gandhi (1971). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: The years of challenge, January 1966-August 1969”

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• For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Barren, Investigation

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

  Edmund Burke

  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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