Top 100 Quotes About Technique
#1. You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.
Martha Graham
#2. Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.
David B. Coe
#3. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
#4. There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#5. It is remarkable how very individual technique becomes in watercolour. Every man of personality finally arrives at a method peculiarly his own, as unique as his own fingerprint.
Walter J. Phillips
#6. There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
Frances Mayes
#8. When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.
Frantz Fanon
#9. I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.
Walter J. Phillips
#10. Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.
Leopold Auer
#11. Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.
Joe Satriani
#12. Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#13. Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
Betty Buckley
#14. Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals ... the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.
Mary Parker Follett
#15. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.
Eugene H. Peterson
#16. The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
Kevin Kline
#17. I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
Alexandr Dolgopolov
#18. The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
Hal Sparks
#19. You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.
Herbie Hancock
#20. I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.
Sienna Guillory
#21. Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
Edsger Dijkstra
#22. The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
Ezra Pound
#24. For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
Walter J. Phillips
#25. One thing that old blues records teach you, is that even people with very limited skills can play very personal, distinctive, and appealing music that has nothing to do with the extent of their technique. It was their artistry. It was their feeling.
Greil Marcus
#26. Never worry that rote exercises aimed at developing skills will suffocate creativity. At the same time, it's important to recognize that demonstrating great technique is not the same as being creative.
Twyla Tharp
#28. In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ... , must always be correlated with tactical tasks.
Viacheslav Platonov
#29. Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
David Millar
#30. It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
John Barth
#31. Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#32. When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind back to the technique you were practicing and begin again.
Frederick Lenz
#33. I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.
Cat Zingano
#34. It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more brave in the sense that you're - your technique is so much more exposed because there's not all this flashy stuff to distract the viewer.
Cary Fukunaga
#35. What I have noticed which I'm not nuts about that the trend that a lot of shows are hiring the American Idol type of talent without real training and real technique and I think that audiences are smart and sometimes seeing that things are not as high caliber as they were before.
Hugh Panaro
#36. Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
Monica Raymund
#37. So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
Bill Bruford
#38. I kissed her hand. My seduction technique is best filed under Obvious.
Michelle Tea
#39. Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
Stacy Schiff
#40. People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.
Marjane Satrapi
#41. The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
Honore De Balzac
#42. I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.
Ryan Reynolds
#43. There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.
Fred Brooks
#44. One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.
Dave Barry
#45. The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.
Darius Milhaud
#46. Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
Assar Lindbeck
#47. So called "composition" becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.
Edward Weston
#48. To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#49. Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.
Margaret Atwood
#50. Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.
Swami Beyondananda
#51. I loved Art Tatum! And, through him, and other different jazz musicians, I actually found my technique.
Tony Bennett
#52. But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
Thornton Wilder
#53. Her technique was not perfect. Here and there he heard an off-pitch note, and her run of sixteenths was uneven. But her attack was fierce, her bow digging into the strings with such confidence that even her mistakes sounded intentional, every note played without apology.
Tess Gerritsen
#54. Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Milton Friedman
#55. To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
Robert Bateman
#56. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
Steven Pinker
#57. I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.
Flannery O'Connor
#58. I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
Penelope Cruz
#59. One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.
David Lamb
#60. The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.
Ayn Rand
#61. I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.
Mark Morris
#62. Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different.
Mark Rydell
#63. Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.
H.W. Brands
#64. If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Marianne Moore
#65. Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.
Bill Crow
#66. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
Octavio Paz
#67. Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder.
Jerry Rice
#68. I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
Scott Westerfeld
#69. Nuclear transplantation is a technique that has enormously facilitated the analysis of these interactions between nucleus and cytoplasm.
John Gurdon
#70. I don't like the piano player music of the movies, the Michael Nyman, and sometimes that piano music makes me puke. It's not really romantic. It's just trying to get your Pavlovian juices flowing because it's a technique now.
Charlemagne Palestine
#71. The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.
John Singer Sargent
#72. I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
#73. Try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.
Philip Roth
#74. It is the technique, above all, that makes a meal Chinese or not.
Bee Wilson
#75. I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.
Stanislaw Ulam
#76. Chess can never reach its height by following in the path of science ... Let us, therefore, make a new effort and with the help of our imagination turn the struggle of technique into a battle of ideas.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#77. You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.
Kirsten Dunst
#78. Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.
Harold Morowitz
#79. I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#80. Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
Bertrand Russell
#81. And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
Aldous Huxley
#82. Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.
Caleb Carr
#83. I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore?
Ilona Andrews
#84. Scholes is the best English player. Intelligence, technique, strength ... all the attributes are there. At Manchester United I saw what he could do on the training field. Phew!
Laurent Blanc
#85. Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
Agnes De Mille
#86. The most popular systems are those that apply a disciplined systematic technique, .. The hardest part for investors is finding a system that fits their lifestyle, and that is a critically important component.
William McKinley
#87. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
Stacy Peralta
#88. It is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated, repressed, altered by our social order, it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies.
Michel Foucault
#89. I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.
Rebecca West
#90. Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#91. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline, and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.
Peter Kreeft
#92. I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
John Michael Higgins
#93. Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar Wilde
#94. Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
Agnes De Mille
#95. Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
Marianne Williamson
#96. When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.
Kuno Becker
#97. I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.
Leonard Slatkin
#98. In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.
Stephen Hunter
#99. One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.
Robert Maurer
#100. You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.
Julianne Moore
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