Method Quotes - Page 5

• Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Nobel lecture as quoted in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1974.

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• Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Ideas, Deep Thought

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

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• It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

  Ida Rolf

  Way, Smart Women, Approach

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• Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

  Krista Tippett

  Wise, Wisdom, Exercise

  "The Real Environmental Crisis: Lessons From the Green Patriarch" by Krista Tippett, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taken, Nwo, People

  "The Ultimate Revolution". Aldous Huxley's speech at Berkeley Language Center, www.informationclearinghouse.info. March 20, 1962.

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• There is no method but to be very intelligent.

  T. S. Eliot

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Crafts

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• I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

  Tim Robbins

  Actors, Research, Enough

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• I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

  George Clooney

  Drinking, Years, Training

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• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Organization, Principles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.311, Library of America

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop.

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• Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

  Thomas Huxley

  Assumption, Chemistry, Sometimes

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

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• The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Execution, United States, Nazi

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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• I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

  Vivien Leigh

  Acting, Should, Knows

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• The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Work, Philosophical, Men

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Ch. 22, 1513.

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• Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Consideration, Used

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• Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Drinking, Writing, Acting

  Interview with Dennis Widmyer, chuckpalahniuk.net. September 30, 2007.

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• I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Principles, Conservative, Radical

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; its a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

  Charles Ruff

  Office, Causes, Danger

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• Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

  Roy Romer

  Thinking, Acquisition, Inquiry

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• A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Law, Class, Government

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.

  Frederik Pohl

  Fiction, Dissection, Reconstruction

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• A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

  Norman Jewison

  Character, Usa, Long

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• In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

  George Stigler

  Survivor, Topics, Size

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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