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“Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.”

Important Loses Poor Modern Concepts Essence Simplicity Extremes Technique Craftsmanship

Author:George L. Carlson

“People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.”

People Thinking Trying Heart Two Important Fighting Games Differences Levels Player Essence Balls Strategy Competition Technique Hitting One On One Fighting Each Other

Author:John Newcombe

“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.”

Years Important Matter Wanted Situation Accepting Example Position Involved Happenings Essence Technique Drunk Shooting Observers Aesthetics Being Drunk

Author:Antoine D'Agata

“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.”

Able Courses Ability Musician Essence Technique Rhythm Sensitivity Fuse

Author:Herbie Hancock

“Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.”

Individual Numbers Democracy Groups Creating Essence Organization Unions Technique Genuine Brutes

Author:Mary Parker Follett

“In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.”

Mean Process Leader Essence Technique France Guillotine Banishment

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.”

Thinking Success Sports Numbers Practice Basketball Yoga Essence Breaths Medicine Technique Injury Endurance Severity Yoga Practice Hatha Yoga Hot Yoga Endurance Sports

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process.”

Peace Process Struggle Willing Essence Strategy Technique Arise Willingness Nonviolence Dogma Tactics

Book:Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change

“Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.”

Spiritual Passion Love Is Results Essence Investment Technique Preparation Manifestation

Book:To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

Source: To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

“The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.”

Self Successful Discipline Essence Technique Self Confidence

Book:Because I Said So!: A Collection of 366 Insightful and Thought- Provoking Reflections on Parenting and Family Life

Source: Because I Said So!: A Collection of 366 Insightful and Thought- Provoking Reflections on Parenting and Family Life

“To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent - herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.”

Spiritual Lying Spirituality Essence Intelligent Regard Fundamentals Technique Taoism Tao Accumulation Deficiency Coarse

Author:Zhuangzi