Technique Quotes

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

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.

THE TECHNIQUES OF the Art of Peace are neither fast nor slow, nor are they inside or outside.. They transcend time and space.

A lot of the techniques are similar in MMA. You just have to look at your opponent and their technique and tweak your game plan a little bit.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

The bagger is the technique of lazy.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

I'm all about working with directors that are doing different techniques and I think everyone has their way of getting it to the place that they think is best.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

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.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.