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“In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.”

People Want Acting Offers Method Routes Method Acting

Author:Corin Nemec

“If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.”

Ifs Way Difficult Effort Practice Journey Offers Method Profound Manuals Manual Work

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

“I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.”

Thinking Needs Two Self Reason Offers Discovery Method Western Lifestyle Self Discovery Desirable Eastern Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.”

“It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.”

Source: The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

“Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.”

Knows Men Firsts Honor Offers Members Method Spots Clans Wu Tang Clan

Author:Josh Peck

“I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.”

Years Today Enjoy Technology Offers Method Careful Odd New Technology Latest Technology

Author:David Gilmour

“Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.”

Offers Method Destructive Avoiding Constructive

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Being constructively critical is good, as long as your purpose is to improve your methods for future endeavors. Lying in bed and replaying failures and telling yourself you're stupid is a tremendous disservice to your efforts and what you can offer the world.”

World Long Lying Purpose Effort Stupid Offers Bed Method Critical Endeavor Disservice You Re Stupid Future Endeavors

Book:The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

Source: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)

“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

“We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.”

World Needs Different Done Difficult Term Company Creative Circumstances Offers Method Alternatives Employee Flexibility Different Worlds Work Done Difficult Circumstances

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”

Writing Made Use Reality Form Class Taken Example Expression Offers Method Factories Realist Literary Works

Book:Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

“Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation.”

Knows Facts Stories Past Literature Journey Reader Offers Method Surprise Interpretation Discovering Altered Retelling

Author:Jeanette Winterson