"The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit."
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"You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods."
"I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing."
"Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time."
"The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration."
"Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it"
"The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others."
"Madness in method, that's genius"
"All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing."
"For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method."
"What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning."
"Converting your own passions into a job is the fastest method for eliminating any passion you once had."
"The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them."
"Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned."
"If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method."
"The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter."
"Scientific method: There's a madness in the method."
"The axiomatic method has many advantages over honest work."
"You know my methods. Apply them."
"Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide."