Methodology Quotes

• I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

  Lindsay Wagner

  Healing, Healed You, Self

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• Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Conclusion

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2016

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• Methodology is intuition reconstructed in tranquility.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Intuition, Tranquility

  "The Mind Traveller: A Guide to Paul F. Lazarsfeld's Communicating Research Papers". Book by Ann K. Pasanella, p. 22, 1994.

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• Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

  Jacques Derrida

  Poetic, Discourse, Sentences

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press

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• The methodologies are always different but the message should be the same.

  T. D. Jakes

  Different, Messages, Should

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it.

  Joan Miro

  Bird, Mind, Way

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• New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

  Lawren Harris

  Challenges, Demand, Conventions

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• Any methodology for developing patience requires a multi-tiered approach.

  Allan Lokos

  Patience, Approach, Developing

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• There is no best way to make art, but there are a lot of better ways.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Way, Best Way

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• Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

  Mason Cooley

  Ideas, Giving, No Idea

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• Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Effort

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• Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Common Sense, Historical, Circumstances

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• I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Technique, Slave

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• My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

  Stone Gossard

  Knowing, Not Knowing

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• Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Technique, Ifs

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• I don't claim to be a methodologist, but I act like one only because I do methodology to protect myself from crazy methodologists.

  Ward Cunningham

  Crazy, Claims, Protect

  Talk at MS Research, November 2004.

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• An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them."

  Ken Wilber

  Smart, Mean, Ideas

  Foreword to "Integral Medicine: A Noetic Reader", edited by Marilyn Schlitz and Tina Hyman, 2003.

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• Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Understanding, Doubt, World

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 141, 1952.

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• I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Thinking, Skills, Giving

  "What is Philosophy?". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1964.

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• I advance all of my canvas at one time.

  Paul Cezanne

  Canvas, One Time

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• For the painter, the system of painting in flat tints is superior to all others.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Painting, Painter, Flats

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• In my case, I used the elements of these simple forms - square, cube, line and color - to produce logical systems. Most of these systems were finite; that is, they were complete using all possible variations. This kept them simple.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Squares, Color

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• They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

  Georges Seurat

  Done, Method

  Christoph Becker, Julia Burckhardt, Georges Seurat, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2009). “Georges Seurat: figure in space”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.

  William Hogarth

  Player, Men, Dumb

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• A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Mixtures, Looks

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.8, Routledge

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