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“There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.”

Thinking Way Want Trying Wells Use Fighting Courses Winning Sports Acting Economy Scene Metaphor Active Technique Objectives

Author:Greta Gerwig

“We basically have only two real tried and true techniques that can help counter this. One of them is to make systems as simple as we can, and there are limits to that because we can only simplify things so much. The other is the use of encryption.”

Two Real Helping Use Simple Limits Technique Simplify Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“It may be true that encryption makes certain investigations of crime more difficult. It can close down certain investigative techniques or make it harder to get access to certain kinds of electronic evidence. But it also prevents crime by making our computers, our infrastructure, our medical records, our financial records, more robust against criminals. It prevents crime.”

Kind May Certain Difficult Records Crime Computer Evidence Harder Financial Technique Criminals Access Medical Being True Investigation Infrastructure Robust Encryption Medical Records

Author:Matt Blaze

“The greatest player in the world. Ronaldinho? Absolutely. I just can't get enough of watching him play - he's a delight for the eye. His technique is incredible, his touch, his vision, he scores and he orchestrates everything. He's just the complete player. I know how difficult it is for a forward playing at this level, but for him it's so easy. He does it every single game and it's just unbelievable to watch.”

Knows World Doe Enough Play Eye Games Easy Difficult Levels Vision Watches Know How Player Incredibles Delight Technique Score Unbelievable

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your prospect (customers) do.”

Feelings Beats Research Various Customers Technique Breathing Acquire

Book:The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself

Source: The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself

“Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.”

Ideas Technique

Author:William Bernbach

“Drugs don't have spiritual potential, human beings have spiritual potential. And it may be that we need techniques to move us in that direction, and the use of psychoactive drugs clearly is one path that has helped many people.”

People Needs Humans May Use Spiritual Moving Human Beings Path Drug Technique Psychoactive Drugs

Author:Andrew Weil

“I use a Bruce Lee technique: "The way of no way". He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.”

Thinking Way Mind Ideas States Use Fighting Clear Goes On Empty Starting Technique Best Way Gigs

Author:Eddie Izzard

“I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about, and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.”

Helping Song Asks Prayer Lord Practice Stage Honest Mom My Mom Warm Technique Being Honest Help Me

Author:Jackie Evancho

“Wrestling is a one-on-one experience and if something goes wrong you can't point a finger and blame somebody else. What you do is up to you. And yet it's a team sport, because whether your team wins or loses is a result of the cumulative effect of the matches. Wrestling is a great confidence builder because it's not all about strength. You have to use your balance and skill and technique and if you do, you can overcome a lot of muscle and bulk guys, and even those who have natural ability. Basically, you can out-technique an opponent.”

“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

“I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.”

Used My Own Pleasure Technique Video Analysis

Author:Roger Federer

“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

“The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.”

Hands Cameras Technique Painter Artificial

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.”

Needs Littles Stills Left Force Dangerous Revolution Obvious Terrorism Convinced Technique Practicals Doctrine Former Phrases Collections Stimulus Menace Marxist Impetus Subversion

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“There's an appreciation, not unlike that for dancers or tightrope walkers, of the body undergoing tests and coming through them by courage and technique; a desire for "clean" results.”

Body Desire Results Tests Clean Appreciation Technique Dancer Walkers

Author:Richard Gilman

“I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.”

Art Technique Multiple Exploits Silk Reproduction Screening

Author:Andy Warhol

“We learned sexual technique from our dog. He taught how to beg, and he taught my wife how to roll over and play dead.”

Play Wife Dog Taught My Wife Technique

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.”

Wells Art Said Form Answers Taken Photography Technique Crafts Hobbies Ambivalent

Book:True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

Source: True to life: twenty-five years of conversations with David Hockney

“I'm in a new club, by the way. And I don't know if you're first timers like I am, but I'm in the 'I Just Dropped My Cell Phone In My Own Piss' Club. Have you done that? Yeah, good times. I'm on the phone and I forget that I'm using shoulder technique. Urinals were taken so I went in to use the regular john. And as I'm standing there, mid-conversation, I'm like 'Are you serious?' and it just started to toboggan right down my powerful chest.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Done Use My Own Forget Powerful Taken Serious Conversation First Time Standing Yeah Phones Clubs Technique Shoulders Cells Good Times Chests Cell Phone Standing There Timer

Author:Dane Cook

“The photographer must be absorbent - like a blotter, allow himself to be permeated by the poetic moment... His technique should be like an animal function... he should act automatically.”

Should Moments Animal Function Photographer Technique Poetic

Author:Robert Doisneau

“Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.”

Knows Mean Made Said Play Wanted Guy Sound Views Hell Learning Imagine Intellectual Hot Instruments Jazz Point Of View Technique Imagine That Learning More

Author:Benny Goodman

“It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.”

Thinking Has Beens Done Use Mother Instruments Assuming Fortune Critical Technique Piano Concerts Unusual Pianist Recorders

Author:Michala Petri

“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.”

Want Hands Action Used Race Cutting Modern Movement Cameras Technique Action Movie Zoom Death Race

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.”

Guy Studios Technique Fascinated Gears Audio Mesmerizing

Author:Adam Young

“Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.”

Philosophy Jobs Mets Technique

Author:Ryan Blair

“To know whether photography is or is not an art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography. By good is meant that photography which accepts all the limitations inherent in photographic technique and takes advantage of the possibilities and characteristics the medium offers. By bad photography is mean that which is done, one may say, with a kind of inferiority complex, with no appreciation of what photography itself offers: but on the contrary, recurring to all sorts of imitations.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“I don't like comfort zones. Having never had any drama training, I don't really have a technique, so I'm continually learning new things. I like being frightened, and always having to start from scratch.”

Comfort Drama Training Technique Zone Frightened New Things Comfort Zone Scratches Learning New Learning New Things Continually Learning

Author:Lea Seydoux

“A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.”

Helping Use Next Technique Phrases Help Me Routine Transition Smooth

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“People say he doesn't score a lot of goals with his head, but does he really have to with the ability he has in his feet? He makes spectacular goals look easy. His technique is fantastic. (on Thierry Henry)”

People Looks Doe Easy Goal Ability Feet England Technique Fantastic Score Spectacular

Author:Alan Shearer

“We used the camera only as a means of expression and as a visual medium that offers possibilities found in no other artistic technique, possibilities that the eye cannot catch in their totality. We tried to establish a characteristic vision of photography.”

Mean Eye Used Found Vision Possibility Expression Offers Photography Cameras Technique Mediums Artistic Characteristics Visuals Totality

Author:Piet Zwart

“The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.”

Moments Impossible Painting Capable Photograph Technique Analogies Expressive Conveying

Author:Edouard Vuillard

“To convulse reality from within, to demonstrate it as fractured spacing, became the collective result of all that vast range of techniques to which surrealist photographers resorted and which they understood as producing the characteristics of the sign.”

Reality Results Understood Photographer Technique Range Characteristics Collectives Surrealist Spacing

Author:Rosalind E. Krauss

“A technique is a trick that works.”

Technique Tricks

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota

“I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.”

Thinking Boys Models Males Technique Obsession Toys Location

Author:Ellen von Unwerth

“It's a pity I am so impatient and careless, as any ordinary person could learn all the techniques of photography in a week. It is the democratic art, i.e. technical skill is practically eliminated - the more foolproof cameras become with focusing and exposure gadgets the better - and artistic quality depends only on choice of subject.”

“I'm working on something a little different. It's a technique I call, 'tantric abstinence.' Now, the way this works is I meet a woman, I charm the heck out of her, and then right as she's considering sleeping with me, I say something so awkward that she leaves and I have to start over again with another woman entirely.”

Way Littles Different Sleep Technique Charm Awkward Considering Starting Over Abstinence Another Woman

Author:Christian Finnegan

“I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.”

Ifs Play Use Clean Notes Tongue Technique Articulation

Author:Paul Smoker

“There was a time, in my early 20s, when I picked up the trumpet and said, 'I've got to change what I'm doing.' I wasn't putting enough air through the horn. The tone I wanted was bigger than what I had. I was out of control.”

Said Enough Wanted Air Bigger Technique Tone Horns Trumpets Early 20s

Author:Paul Smoker

“My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.”

Way Self Enough Play Use Bigs Song Reading Difficult Lines Morning Trouble Taught Band Fingers Technique Ran Theme Flats Good Enough Bass Self Taught Snowfall Fingerboard

Author:Bill Crow

“Roger (Kellaway) amazed us all. Blessed with great technique, he could play any style, from ragtime to space music. Whatever style he chose to play at the moment would be filled with wonderful surprises that kept the rest of us continually delighted.”

Play Moments Would Be Space Wonderful Style Blessed Filled Surprise Technique Amazed Delighted Roger Ragtime

Author:Bill Crow

“Baton technique is to a conductor what fingers are to a pianist.”

Fingers Technique Pianist Conductor Baton

Author:Igor Markevitch

“Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.”

Mean Character Reality Social Process Expression Civilization Photography Conscious Aim Technique Faithful Inherent Typical Documentaries Social Life Reproduction Technicians Reproducing

Author:Gisele Freund

“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”

Should Forget Should Have Fingers Technique

Book:Lotte Jacobi

Source: Lotte Jacobi

“In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political weapon. Such effects arise from its technique of juxtaposing heterogeneous, unrelated pieces of reality torn from their context. A good photomontage has the same effect as a good joke.”

Reality Form Political Powerful Pieces Effects Weapons Capable Jokes Originals Technique Arise Occasions Torn

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“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.”

Needs Doe Stories Focus Objects Technique

Author:Albert Renger-Patzsch

“There is an urgent need to examine old opinions and look at things from a new viewpoint. There must be an increase in the joy one takes in an object, and the photographer should become fully conscious of the splendid fidelity of reproduction made possible by his technique. Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement.”

Source: Albert Renger-Patzsch: joy before the object

“We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.”

Seeing Modern Technique

Author:Sophie Ristelhueber

“My work is aimed at creating a world in which I wish to live. Consequently, it is about creating ideals with the aid of realistic techniques. My most fundamental motivation is a desire for unity, fusion and sense of community.”

World Desire Motivation Wish Community Creating Ideals Fundamentals Unity Aids Technique Realistic Fusion

Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body.”

Littles Facts Body Energy Flow Technique Internals Allowing Visualization

Author:Chuck Norris

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