Technique Quotes

I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.

I'm baptized by America and covered in leeches.

Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

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.

Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

Magic has always been an element of Witchcraft, but in the Craft its techniques were practiced within a context of community and connection.

A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration.

As far as swing and techniques are concerned, I don't know diddly squat. When I'm playing well, I don't even take aim.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element.

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.

As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.