Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Observation
• Method
• Trifles

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• Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

  

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• I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

  

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• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

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• But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  

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• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  

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• I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.

  

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• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
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• I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.

  

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• The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
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• 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.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Work
  • God
  • Earth

• It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Done
  • Question
  • Result

• It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep.

  

  Ida Pauline Rolf
  • Way
  • Deep
  • Approach

• Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • People
  • Change
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• Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush... there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Up
  • Mind
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• When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation. One of the things that used to strike me was [Walter White] need to impress people, even just people who came into the office.

  

  Ella Baker
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  • Observation

• 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.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Work
  • Effort
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• Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating.

  

  Jesse Livermore
  • Money
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• By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

  

  August Sander
  • World
  • Helping
  • Observation

• I eat exactly three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I sit quietly for 20 minutes without anybody disturbing me, and I chew each mouthful 60 times.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Eat
  • Disturbing
  • Chew

• There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.

  

  Kay Hooper
  • Human
  • Conscious
  • Fantasy

• You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Observation
  • Method
  • Trifles