Technique Quotes

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique.

I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.

I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

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.

How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

Of all the time-saving techniques ever developed, perhaps the most effective is the frequent use of the word no.

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

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Maybe you're not doing it right""I wasn't aware there was a technique to tree hugging.

I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

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