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“I will not underrate the importance [of equipment]... But I insist that the trained mind is the first thing, and for scouting a fool on horseback is worth less than a wise man on foot.”

Scouting Wise Man Technical Knowledge Scout Practical Wisdom

Book:National Life from the Standpoint of Science

Source: National Life from the Standpoint of Science

“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.”

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.”

Beautiful Secret Color Masters Code Volume Schooling Technical Knowledge

Author:Giambattista Valli

“See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.”

Writing Mind Calm Calm Mind Technical Knowledge

Book:THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

“No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.”

Artist Passion Amount Ultimate Passionate Caring Sufficient Competence Self Sufficient Technical Knowledge

Author:Freeman Patterson

“cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.”

Reason Life Is Knowledge Cutting Despair Depth Meaningless Intuitive Deprived Technical Knowledge

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.”

Ifs Age Artist Color Theory Pure Paint Experiments Innocence Laboratory Liberated Best Work Impressionists Technical Knowledge

Book:Mary Cassatt

Source: Mary Cassatt

“The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.”

Player Masters Contracts Technical Knowledge

Author:Ely Culbertson

“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.”

“Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.”

Aspect Iranian Technical Knowledge

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.”

Art Enough Growing Technique Unconscious Judo Technical Knowledge

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.”

People Should Mind Facts Helping School Young Grows Responsibility Experiments Soil Vocation Technical Knowledge

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

People Humans Wisdom Lines Ability Knowledge Technology Personality Skills Financial Dues Engineering Financial Success Technical Skills Technical Knowledge

Author:Dale Carnegie

“[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.”

Thinking Humans Form Science President Natural Knowledge History Habit Safe Daily Life Human History Naturalist Uniting Natural History Theodore Technical Knowledge Wild Life

Author:John Burroughs

“And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.”

Years Kind Creativity Study Fields Particular Creating Truism Immersion Technical Knowledge

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.”

Thinking Important Bits Sound Life Experience Pretentious Technical Knowledge

Author:Roger Deakins

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Care Knowledge Judgment Plenty Sane Diligence Technical Knowledge

Author:Albrecht Durer

“The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.”

“Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.”

Needs Littles Different Values Understanding Levels Responsibility Skills Photography Presses Photographer Photograph Zone Print Buttons Predictable Different Levels Technical Knowledge

Author:Minor White

“Two factors thus emerge as requisites of success in the field of creative photography. First, the subject must be photogenic. Second, its re-creation in a photograph must be based upon technical knowledge, guided and supported by artsitic inspiration.”

Firsts Two Inspiration Creative Subjects Creation Fields Photography Photograph Factors Photogenic Technical Knowledge

Book:Feininger on Photography

Source: Feininger on Photography

“The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.”

People Said Would Be Party Study Building Revolution Germany Communist Communist Party Technical Knowledge

Author:Klaus Fuchs