Technique Quotes
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to be the most adroit killers?
I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.
Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.
There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.
Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things . . . the right technique, colour or brush . . . can make all the difference.
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.
And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.
They have so fundamentally flawed techniques it's ridiculous. They shoot the ball flat. They all stand upright, there's just so many things they do incorrectly.
Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.
We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
Play is the taproot from which original art springs. It is the raw stuff that the artist channels with all his learning and technique.
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.
Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.
I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body.
No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.
It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.
You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.
I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.
Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.