Technique Quotes

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.

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics.

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.

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

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.

It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

A salesperson’s ethics and values contribute more to sales success than do techniques or strategies.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.

I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

Any time you try to apply conventional techniques to Donald Trump, you're going to be disappointed.

It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity, as Marcus Aurelius taught long ago.

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

I love learning new techniques.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.

Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I don't know if it's a technique, or just being bent that way, being raised by the folks I was raised by.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.