#methods

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#boards #fill #get #i #less

There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#being #bible #book #both #emotion

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#animal #brutal #circus #confinement #entertainment

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#creating #finding #following #help #methods

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#being #boxing #century #changing #dragged

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#decipher #defies #expectation #fill #hope

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#colleagues #courses #give #historical #i

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions. ↗

— David Copperfield

#each #fortunate #i #i am #illusions

I began these clinics because I want to share my years of experience in around the ring, in addition to my proven winning methods. I have seen the good and the bad. I have learned valuable lessons, which I want to pass along to those truly interested in the sport. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#along #around #bad #because #began