T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Technically, the weight of pain is the weight of shadow.”
Source: The Rest of Love: Poems
“Technically, we're all half centaur.”
“Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.”
“Technically, you can’t fault Jadeja. Seam or spin, fast or slow every goddamn thing is a problem.”
“Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.”
“Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.”
“Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others... it rises from your heart.”
“Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.”
“Technique conquers all.”
“Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.”
“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.”
“Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.”
“Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.”
“Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.”
“Technique is everything and we play a contact sport.”
“Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990
“Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.”
“Technique is nothing more than failed style.”
Source: Crackpot: The Obsessions of
“Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.”
Source: Literature and Revolution
“Technique is of less interest than character and story.”
“Technique is only the surface of musical expression.”
“Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.”
Source: The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition
“Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.”
“Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.”
“Technique is the test of sincerity.”
“Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.”
“Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.”
“Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important”
“Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.”
“Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.”
Source: The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study
“Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.”
“Technique works when intuition fails”
Source: An Actor Prepares
“Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.”
“Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.”
“Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.”
Source: The Art of Peace
“Techniques for making decision:
- Fill in the gaps (Discuss with domain experts)
- Have a Go-To Team (Team that understands you and are aligned with your core values)
- Pull in the stake holders
- Visualize what your world would look like with that decision
- Take emotions out of the decision (Take time if needed)
- Think in advance about the worst case scenario
- Mitigate the risk of worst case scenario”
Source: The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate
“Techniques like reappraisal and mindful acceptance can help us navigate these moments of self-doubt.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.”
“Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.”
“Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet”
“Techno-music is the voice of the machine, triumphing over the human utterance and cancelling its pre-eminent claim to our attention. In such music we encounter the background noise of modern life, but suddenly projected into the foreground, so as to fill all the auditory space. However much you listen to this music, you will never hear it as you hear the human voice; not even when it sounds so loudly that you can hear nothing else. You are overhearing the machine, as it discourses in the moral void.”
Source: An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture
“Technocapital is flowing at hyperspeed and is primed to grab onto our drives and pull us toward capitalistic integration into the will of the Other; therefore, now more than ever, we as a species need a conscious psychoeducation.”
Source: Žižek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy
“Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.”
“Technocultural evolution driven by epigenetic and memetic factors, the collective will of humanity to emulate the most successful achievements of Nature with technology, proceeds now millions of times faster than genetic evolution of our species at an ever-accelerating pace.”
Source: TECHNOCULTURE: The Rise of Man
“Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.”
“Technological advance at high speed combined with moral blindness about what we are doing to the world's societies and to the biosphere is a recipe for rapid extinction.”
Source: Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
“Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.”
Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice
“Technological advancement and modernisation have not brought inner peace and tranquillity. Rather, in spite of the creature comforts that modernisation has brought us, we are further away from inner peace than our ancestors were. Inner peace is for the most part of our lives very elusive; we never seem to get our hands on it...”
Source: The Search for Inner Peace