Best Technique Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 27

“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.”

Thinking Decision Behinds Doors Lays Technique Solo

Author:Evan Parker

“To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.”

Writing Difficult Technique Historian Concessions

Book:Mimesis

Source: Mimesis

“I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.”

Thinking Technique Sincerity Aesthetic Sole Realism

Author:Edmund White

“Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.”

Dream Technique

Author:Diana Vreeland

“Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.”

Trying Training Fishes Technique Fighter

Author:Angelo Dundee

“The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.”

“We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.”

Guy Months Technique Abandoned

Author:Barry Alvarez

“MapReduce has become the assembly language for big data processing, and SnapReduce employs sophisticated techniques to compile SnapLogic data integration pipelines into this new big data target language. Applying everything we know about the two worlds of integration and Hadoop, we built our technology to directly fit MapReduce, making the process of connectivity and large scale data integration seamless and simple.”

“In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.”

Cities Known Cases Technique Efficient Bombing Rent Control

Author:Assar Lindbeck

“We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.”

Thinking Should Moving Order Instinct Photographer Technique Ritual Gestures Samurai

Author:Alex Majoli

“It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.”

Wells May Skills Profound Technique Mysterious Mastery

Author:Joshua Waitzkin

“I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.”

Looks Art Important Perfect Information Fit Technique Artistic Excess Smooth Technological Unimportant Blur

Author:Gerhard

“A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.”

Today Christ Quality Creativity Four Talent Fashion Style Personality Essentials Regard Technique Combination Dancer Dedication Imperatives Monotony Deterrent Coupling

Author:Yamini Krishnamurthy

“I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.”

Looks Form Space Written Ultimate Technique Look Up Prose Poetic Embedded

Author:Story Musgrave

“Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.”

Made Passion Technique Dancer Ballet Dance Tap Dance

Author:Agnes de Mille

“The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like.”

Want Ideas Play Use Sound Masters Technique

Author:Pat Martino

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

Way Use Film Stage Technique Theatrical Cinematic

Author:Julie Taymor

“It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.”

Years Would Be Differences Style Easier Years Ago Technique Violinist

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.”

Real Months Creating Stones Guides Technique Sugar Crystals Guide Me

Author:Ron Ben-Israel

“Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.”

Way Doe Art Secret Discipline Technique Dancer Cake Decorating Meticulous

Author:Ron Ben-Israel

“I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I don’t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That’s why I love it so much.”

Years Believe Character Facts Light Hours Simple Half Land Don't Believe Technique Breathing Location Every Second

Author:Fay Godwin

“To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of pure logic but also the "logic" of emotions and intuition. My musical techniques, although often rigorous in their internal structure, leave many openings through which the most complex and mysterious factors of the intelligence may penetrate.”

Humans May Mean Emotion Music Pure Logic Structure Complexes Musical Intuition Technique Opening Factors Mysterious Internals Penetrate Human Intelligence

Author:Iannis Xenakis

“Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.”

Use Team Drug Doctors Scientist Method Complexes Active Technique Substance Officials Cheating Sophisticated Deliberate Riders Complicity Drug Use

Author:Dick Pound

“As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.”

Certain Sound Effects Appreciate Lifetime Boxes Technique Vocabulary

Author:Adrian Belew

“The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.”

Long Real Light Waiting Hours Scene Defeat Technique Mastery Real Love Repetition Inconvenience Long Hours

Author:Ivor Novello

“A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.”

Trying Chance Technique Instant Martial Arts Hesitation

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.”

Mind Motivational Success Hope Secret Keys Findings Training Technique Cease Martial Arts Polish Effectiveness Judo

Author:Kyuzo Mifune

“Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.”

Feels Mean Important Anxiety Technique Confession Consistency Justified Interrogation Coerce Anxiety And Fear

Author:Aldrich Ames

“There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.”

Order Technology Development Promise Management Simplicity Decades Technique Productivity Improvement Magnitude Reliability

Author:Fred Brooks

“Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.”

Art Games Sports Movement Demand Extraordinary Speed Technique Rhythm Logical Hockey Smooth Sequence Precision

Author:Jacques Plante

“The 'secret of life' is BELIEF. Rather than genes, it is our beliefs that control our lives. PSYCH-K is a set of simple, self-empowering techniques to change your beliefs and perceptions that impact your life at a cellular level.”

Self Life Is Belief Simple Levels Secret Our Lives Perception Impact Technique Empowering Genes Secret Life Psych Cellular Self Empowering

Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through understanding the contents of his own mind, through observation, not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.”

Men Mind Understanding Intellectual Organization Philosophical Technique Psychological Observation Analysis Enlightened Priests Ritual Creeds Dogma Introspective Dissection

Book:The Journey Home

Source: The Journey Home

“Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?”

Giving Trying Courses Steps Meditation Battle Technique Why Not Dozen

Author:Ajahn Chah

“I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old”

Years Children Art Stills Today Five Six Technique Pencils Exposure Workshops Six Year Olds Crayon

Author:Robert Indiana

“I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.”

Used Protect Technique Files

Author:Wen Ho Lee

“Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.”

Two Teach Technique Coaches Two Things

Author:Didier Drogba

“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.”

Firsts Doe Art Reality Artist Quality Known Beauty Experience Importance Depth Everyday Technique Painter Intensity Vague Everyday Life Fuzzy

Author:Grant Wood

“Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time”

Has Beens Views Taught Periods Accounts Technique Traditional Categories Application

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.”

Thinking Littles I Can Shows Home Might Running Can Do Strength Baseball Sexy Technique Appeals Now And Then Hitting Impress Flirting Brutes Chicks Home Run Flirty Funny Baseball Sexiness

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“"Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."”

Want Sometimes Certain Spirituality Found Church Position Particular Assuming Technique Superiors Veins Recruit

Author:John Ortberg

“It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.”

Mind Art Self Body Sports Meditation Discipline Yoga Breaths Defense Technique Martial Arts Self Control Self Defense

Author:Elvis Presley

“Spirit first, technique second.”

Firsts Art Spirit Technique Martial Arts

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.”

Art Remember Technique Martial Arts Remember You Remembers You Martial Arts Inspirational

Author:Bruce Lee

“When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.”

Art Technique Martial Arts

Author:Caio Terra

“If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.”

Ifs Art Care Focus Losing Don't Care Technique Martial Arts

Author:Caio Terra

“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.”

World Should Art Hard Water Space Quality Four Circumstances Empty Technique Martial Arts Our World Diamond Smooth Flexible Aikido

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity of the virtues we have been taught. But I believe we must reckon with character in the end, for it is as potent a force in world conflict as it is in our own domestic affairs. It strikes the last blow in any battle.”

World Believe Has Beens Ends Sometimes Character Lasts Success Belief Force I Believe Virtue Doubt Taught Battle Conflict Affair Blow Strikes Technique Frightening Polished Validity Outlaw

Author:Philip D. Reed

“Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects. But sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.”

Has Beens Art Stills Soul Sometimes Seems Form Young Taken Special Effects Extraordinary Technique Cinema Impressive Special Effects Very Impressive

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.”

Has Beens Ideas Age Materials Mass Productions Technique Manipulation Broads Distribution Mass Production

Author:Edward Bernays

“I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques”

People Thinking Sound Rocks Band Slave Technique Range Conventional Exhausted Rock Bands

Author:Steve Albini

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