84 Quotes About Method

Coach Wooden’s philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

My mother stands her ground. "Silly man, you're just the husband, I created that human. I have every right to her, as much as you.

That what I saw in him wasn't a result of blind faith, but a truth he couldn't see for himself.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.

Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.