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“I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.”

“Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.”

People Games Sports Policy Serious Battle Method Debate Meaningless Mindless Policy Debate

Author:Al Gore

“The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another.”

Courses Principles Products Type Method Improvement Application Manufacturing

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable. ... Cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence (and) avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.”

Use Economy Bears Ought Method Valuable Credit Debt Redemption Occasions Consideration Cherish Throwing Avoiding Delay Urgent Posterity Accumulation Discharge

Author:George Washington

“Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery”

Needs Attitude Mets Discovery Method Openness

Author:Charlotte Selver

“Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.”

Method Scientific Method

Book:The Art of Thinking

Source: The Art of Thinking

“People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.”

People Wells Mean Different Actors Given Method Prepared Whatever Works

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.”

Ifs Wells Self Belief Aspect Criticism Method Property Errors Abandon Questioning Incapable Prevailing Scientific Method Correcting Self Questioning

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.”

World Mind Has Beens Dream Reality Seems Past Left Imagination Fiction Roles Fantasy Ambition Method Assuming Realms Uncertain Confusing Prudent Inner World

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.”

Real Values Design Produce Skills Tests Method Code Concentration Bugs Inadequacy Real Value

Author:Tony Hoare

“The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.”

Art Reason Practice Method

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!”

Bed Sick Method Ruins Secure

Author:Paracelsus

“Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.”

Ends Method Attainment Vigorous

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“The war of Armageddon has already started... God is using his many weapons. He is sending hurricanes so fast that [the blue-eyed devils] can't name them. He is drowning them in floods and causing their cars to crash and their airplanes cannot stay up in the sky. Their boats are sinking because Allah controls all things and he is using all methods to begin to wipe the devils off the planet, [and] the enemy is dying of diseases that have never been so deadly.”

War Names Enemy Sky Dying Car Planets Disease Weapons Devil All Things Blue Method Boat Airplane Crash Flood Drowning Wipe Hurricanes Sinking Armageddon Blue Eyed

Author:Malcolm X

“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.”

Kind Mean Art Self Today Artist Challenges Consciousness Materials Conscious Method Instruments Sensibility Self Conscious Modifying

Author:Susan Sontag

“All those years I had been making movies because I loved movies, and that's what made all the difference. If you're doing it because you love it you can succeed because you'll work harder than anyone else around you, take on challenges no one else would dare take, and come up with methods no one else would discover, especially when their prime drive is fame and fortune. All that will follow later if you really love what you do. Because your work will speak itself.”

Ifs Years Made Speak Challenges Differences Hard Work Fame Succeed Harder Method Fortune Come Up Dare Prime Work Harder

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Human beings remain constant in their methods of conduct.”

Humans Human Beings Method Constant

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.”

Self Effort Achieve Development Direct Method Practicals Self Development

Author:Hua Ching Ni

“God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.”

Doe Play Earth Stars Color Keys Method Shining Paint

Author:Eberhard Arnold

“Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.”

People Wells Process Ability Source Fine Skills Method Torture Subtle Investigation Gifted Colleagues Playgrounds Degenerates Cultivating Quick Fixes

Author:Vladimir Bukovsky

“My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.”

Thinking Feelings Meditation Method

Author:Rajneesh

“In terms of theater itself, no story is too strange or method of telling it too impossible these days. In many ways, musical theater has caught up with straight theater in that it's allowed more surreality and breaking of form, and that's really exciting to me - the challenge is getting people to produce those shows.”

People Way Stories Shows Form Term Challenges Impossible Produce Strange Exciting Theater Method Musical Caught These Days Caught Up Musical Theater

Author:Nick Blaemire

“I used to do more melodic stuff, and I used to do more actual rap - like traditional hip hop vocals. I think my method of storytelling has led me to this point, at which I want to pare down my style. I think I give the lyrics more thought, and then when I try to perform the lyrics over the track I'll try it over and over again, and eventually the lyrics will sink into the track by the way I project them.”

Thinking Way Want Giving Trying Used Stuff Style Projects Method Track Hip Hop Rap Storytelling Traditional Hips Hops Vocal

Author:Galcher Lustwerk

“I kind of liked the method of the seventies where they would throw a little bit of money at a hundred different groups - not millions of dollars per group, but, you know, a few thousand. Throw them in the studio, and if five of those groups came out with a hit record it would be money well spent.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Littles Different Would Be Bits Millions Records Five Groups Thousand Little Bit Hundred Method Dollars Studios Seventies Money Well Spent

Author:Tony Visconti

“You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.”

Way Stories Style Method Sensibility Extensions

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“We all know artists who like to collaborate, who like to work as a team. It all kind of depends what your habitual working method is.”

Knows Kind Artist Team Depends Method All Kinds Habitual Team Work

Author:Eric Drooker

“Personally, I do not think that torture is necessary. But it may be the case that interrogation methods that go beyond questioning, but do not arise to the level of torture, may be necessary to get actionable intelligence from high-ranking al Qaeda leaders”

Thinking May Levels Leader Cases Method Arise Torture Als Questioning Al Qaeda Ranking Interrogation

Author:John Yoo

“Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.”

Way Shows Able Social Media Method Conservative Communicate Social Media Traditional Rely Display New Ways

Author:Kesh

“I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.”

Thinking Method Checks Passages Assertive

Author:Paul Lisicky

“Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.”

Feels Different Sometimes Artist Fields Approach Research Method Data Gathering Gathering Data

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.”

Writing Littles Song Method Awkwardness

Author:Erin McKeown

“I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writing for 12 hours a day and just going through the motions with my worldly business because the compulsion to write descends upon me like a kind of madness. I don't mean to be dramatic, but it feels that way when it strikes.”

Way Feels Writing Kind Mean Long Three Hours Week Periods Madness Method Strikes Dramatic Worldly Compulsion Long Periods Of Time

Author:Kevin Keck

“Sometimes it's binge eating as a method to handle emotional pain. I'll also write very sporadically - music, lyrics - to identify the problem. There are a few cathartic processes I've alternated randomly. There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response.”

Writing Different Sometimes Problem Pain Process Emotional Eating Method Response Handle Emotional Pain Default Binge Cathartic Binge Eating

Author:Brendan Dooling

“There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.”

Wanted Acting Method Tales Good Times Having A Good Time Unicorn Brando Method Acting

Author:Johnny Depp

“I'm not method or anything like that, but sometimes you get the scenes and you're like 'Really, Damon [Lindelof]? More of this? Can I have one scene where it's a walk in the park?' But he doesn't do that. He puts every character through their paces.”

Sometimes Character Walks Scene Method Parks Pace Damon Walks In The Park

Author:Justin Theroux

“The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.”

Kind Long Important Use Understanding Term Meditation Absolutes Method All Kinds Long Term Reasoning Etc Familiarity Using Me

Author:Robert Thurman

“I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.”

I Can Actors Method

Author:Carice van Houten

“Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.”

Facts Political Decision Team Painting Method Strategy Objectives Decision Making Realistic Biographies Rivals Portrayal Dori Good Political

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of experimental methods in psychology. It shows no disrespect for the brilliance of Descartes or Kant to acknowledge that the psychology which they worked with was primitive by comparison with what is available today in the cognitive sciences, any more than it shows disrespect for the brilliance of Aristotle to acknowledge that the physics he worked with does not compare with that of Newton or Einstein.”

“I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.”

People Thinking Important Buddhism Offers Method Practicals Concrete What's Important

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.”

Persons Natural Practice Method Farming

Author:Masanobu Fukuoka

“For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.”

“A couple years in [to acting], I recognized that I developed methods from being a stuntwoman for so long that worked for me that I wasn't aware of. And I had to become aware of them, because I didn't recognize that I could actually apply them across the board.”

Years Long Acting Couple Method Boards

Author:Zoe Bell

“Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.”

Ifs Firsts Individual Method Embrace Nonviolence Transforming Love Unconditionally

Author:Coretta Scott King

“The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.”

Kind Moments Infinite Method All Kinds Digital Distortion Moments In Time Analog

Author:Kevin Shields

“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.”

“Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.”

Trying Persons Light Wanted Black White Decision Method Shining Black And White Chips Better Life Flawed Better Person Being A Better Person Bad Decision

Author:Will Arnett

“I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.”

People Ifs Knows Want Age Method Kitchen

Author:Dorie Greenspan

“I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds.”

Kind Sound Method These Days Pigs Veins Scope Bay Of Pigs

Author:King Khan

“It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I’ve worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It’s on a case-by-case for me, right now.”

Thinking Needs Kind Different Character Acting Roles Cases Depends Right Now Method Scripts Coaches Vary

Author:Zoe Kravitz

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