Technician Quotes

#1. Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Nick Park

#3. If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat.

Eric Ripert

#4. I also know that I am not a great technician.

John Fahey

#5. No team is complete without a good technician, and the word for an incomplete team is usually fatality.

Mira Grant

#6. Why is patience a virtue?" Spencer shouted over the din of activity as he slid out from beneath the rig with another technician. Their coveralls were stained with oil and grime. "Why can't 'hurry the fuck up' be a virtue?

Stephen Knight

#7. There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

Warren Farrell

#8. I always laugh at people who say "I've never met a rich technician" I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician

Martin S. Schwartz

#9. Brian Auger is a superb technician on his instrument, but he also plays with feeling that is a rarity. I am looking forward in recording with him in the near future.

Eddie Harris

#10. As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.

Jonathan Lethem

#11. A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

Gary B Smith

#12. I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

Clive Barker

#13. Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game.

Haruki Murakami

#14. The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

Dan Gable

#15. became one of the first fifty employees at Atari, working as a technician for $5 an hour. "In retrospect, it was

Walter Isaacson

#16. With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.

George R R Martin

#17. I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician, he is also a child place before natural phenomenon, which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

#18. I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jodie Foster

#19. The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

A. N. Wilson

#20. In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists.

Wendell Berry

#21. Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#22. We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let's say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway. It's actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.

Aleksey Igudesman

#23. I'm an engineer," Gareth said, spitting out the word so violently it gave him a degree of spin. "Did eight years on Tycho Station! I'm not going to get used like a fucking technician.

James S.A. Corey

#24. An athletic trainer must put in 1,460 days of training to get a license in Michigan. An emergency medical technician needs only 26.

Anonymous

#25. The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Richard B. Livingston

#26. I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.

Carrie Preston

#27. Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write.

Guy Johnson

#28. And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.

Elrey Borge Jeppesen

#29. As for my vayjay, well, it will do just fine without male intervention. I have a technician and he runs on batteries.

Kirsty Dallas

#30. When I travel, I always have about 40 pairs of skis with me, plus a ski technician and a ski coach.

Julia Mancuso

#31. The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.

Richard Sennett

#32. The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.

Jodie Foster

#34. Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brian Sandoval

#35. Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

Max Euwe

#36. Any computer-electronics technician knows otherwise. Try to find a voltage representing one or zero when the power is off! The circuits are in a mu state.

Robert M. Pirsig

#37. I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

Jeffrey Lewis

#38. Any chance that you're pregnant?' the technician says as he pulls the X-ray lamp over my swollen knee.
'No,' Henry and Dad say at the same time.

Miranda Kenneally

#39. I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.

Rhys Ifans

#40. To say what I would have been if I wasn't boxing, I don't know why, but I always wanted to be an x-ray technician or a substitute teacher. Those two occupations always stuck with me, maybe because my substitute teacher didn't give us homework, or because I've always had x-rays of my hands.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#41. How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

Norman Rockwell

#42. A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Richard B. Livingston

#43. I am not an economist ... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

Sukarno

#44. A technician who uses the term "glitch" is like a
Doctor who tells you you're suffering from a "thingy," except the doctor won't tell you to go home and try turning yourself on and off again.

John Connolly

#45. Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

Francisco Costa

#46. I really wanted to help people, in fact I started schooling to become a firefighter, but as a firefighter in my area you have to be an Emergency medical technician as well.

Cameron West

#47. The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Robert Anton Wilson

#48. The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

Poul Henningsen

#49. The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Edward Abbey

#50. It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Pawan Kalyan

#51. We are overeducated pharmacy clerks (with doctorate degrees) answering the phone, running the cash register, ringing up donuts and dish soap while juggling 10 or more drug related issues per minute with our one technician yelling Override!

Dennis Miller

#52. A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Marie Curie

#53. When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.

Shannon Lucid

#54. I believe that there is no such thing as a subordinate. If the air-conditioning ceases to work in our building, then the repair technician becomes more important than the chairman of the board. We're all people working together toward a common objective.

Mary Kay Ash

#55. You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.

Joell Ortiz

#56. I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting.

Jamie Wyeth

#57. It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

Viktor E. Frankl

#58. I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Jacques Pepin

#59. In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Harold Coffin

#60. He always said that when you are hiring someone, look at the quality of the person. It is very easy to find a good technician; it's much harder and more important to have a good person. ~ Robert Drouhin repeating what his father Maurice told him

Don Kladstrup