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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

  Paul Cezanne

  Perspective, Sides, Spheres

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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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• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Should, Treats

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

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• A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Artist, Views, People

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• Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

  Sergei Eisenstein

  Ideas, Two, Cinema

  Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  People, Levels, Way

  "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef". Personal Website, www.joelonsoftware.com. January 18, 2001.

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• We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ideas, Ontology

  "A Consciousness Based Science". www.sfgate.com. November 4, 2012.

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• The fact that scientists do not consciously practice a formal methodology is very poor evidence that no such methodology exists. It could be said-has been said-that there is a distinctive methodology of science which scientists practice unwittingly, like the chap in Moliere who found that all his life, unknowingly, he had been speaking prose.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Practice, Facts

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Limits, Intention, Obvious

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso

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• Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Mean, Issues

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• For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS.com, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.

  Drew Carey

  Real, People, United States

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• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

  Benjamin Bratt

  School, Style, Training

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• Most theater methodology is predicated on the idea of repeated actions. That's what you work toward. Having the actor repeat the same moment eight times a week. In a film, it's getting that one moment right.

  Stephen Daldry

  Eight, Ideas, Actors

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". Interview with Andy Bailey, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

  Murray Rothbard

  Sound, Principles, Subjectivism

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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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• I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Writing, Arriving, Shapes

  "I still haven't written the best I can" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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