Best Technique Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.”

“An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same way. He has developed a technique to convey those feelings so that he can get the ideas across. Or a musician may not want to play that damn music at all, but he has a booking and has to do it.”

Way Want Years May Ideas Play Feelings Night Three Actors Can Do Emotion Musician Technique Damn Three Years Every Night Broadway

Author:Richard Estes

“Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.”

Firsts Artist Particular Materials Tools Technique Mediums Knowledgeable

Author:Freeman Patterson

“Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.”

Art Past Materials Evolution Art Is Technique

Author:Robert Warren

“For heavens sake, if you haven’t gotten comfy with Agile techniques and thinking, get on it right now.”

Ifs Thinking Heaven Havens Right Now Sake Technique

Author:Tim Bray

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a disciplinary technique, and by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the disciplinarian culture. This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.”

People Thinking School Culture Economy Students Increase Debt Technique Consumers Acquire Graduates Efficient Traps Components Unlikely Loaded Fees Time To Think Tuition

Author:Noam Chomsky

“You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.”

Feelings Certain One Thing Like You Machines Speed Technique Just One Trails Reacting Exertion

Author:Ned Overend

“The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.”

World Made Past Found Effort Rich Mystery Skills Technique Within You Our Past Everlasting Your Past

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.”

Wells Real Creativity Creative Bases Technique Mess Void Be Creative

Author:Robertson Davies

“It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.”

Ends Facts Use Simple Acting Achieve Technique

Author:Marlon Brando

“Le style, pour l'e crivain aussi bien que pour le peintre, est une question non de technique mais de vision. For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.”

Wells Vision Style Technique Painter

Author:Marcel Proust

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“How can Blair fight a war on terror? Terror is not an ideology or an army; terror is a technique.”

War Fighting Army Terror Technique Ideology War On Terror Blair

Author:David Hockney

“The responsibility for the creation of new scientific knowledge - and for most of its application - rests on that small body of men and women who understand the fundamental laws of nature and are skilled in the techniques of scientific research. We shall have rapid or slow advance on any scientific frontier depending on the number of highly qualified and trained scientists exploring it.”

“Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate.”

“Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.”

Used Jesus Technique Ghost Brands Evolve Brand New

Author:Larry Niven

“Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.”

Source: I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine

“Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .”

People Knows Country Used Fighting Conditions Planets Slavery Slave Technique Boundaries Convince Dictator Adages

Book:The Jewels of Aptor

Source: The Jewels of Aptor

“True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!”

Knows Has Beens Reality Choices Liberty Know How Illusion Individuality Appearance Technique Mathematical Integrated

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.”

Men Light Sacred Possession Technique

Author:Jacques Ellul

“There is a limited elite that understands the secrets of their own techniques, but not necessarily of all techniques. These men are close to the seat of modern governmental power. The state is no longer founded on the 'average citizen', but on the ability and knowledge of this elite. The average man is altogether unable to penetrate technical secrets or governmental organization and consequently can exert no influence at all on the state.”

Men States Ability Secret Influence Modern Citizens Organization Average Technique Seats Elites Penetrate Average Man Mental Power

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.”

Action Law Spirit Sports Citizens Morality Office Tradition Independent Workers Finished Technique Objectives Encounters Relief Carrie Customs Distraction Factories Criteria Deviation

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Previously I always thought it was just tactical and technique, but every match has become almost mental and physical - I try to push myself to move well. I try to push myself not to get upset and stay positive, and that's what my biggest improvement is over all those years. Under pressure I can see things very clear.”

Trying Years Wells I Can Moving Clear Pressure Technique Improvement Upset Stay Positive Under Pressure Tactical

Author:Roger Federer

“The world has not learned the technique of balanced expansion without the resultant commercial and financial congestion.”

World Financial Technique Balanced Expansion Congestion

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.”

May Matter Successful Products Unique Investment Technique Criteria Mental Power

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.”

Matter Sound Successful Conditions Approach Intelligent Investment Technique Present Day Touchstones Fluctuation

Author:Benjamin Graham

“There are definitely some tricks and techniques to a good reading. Rewarding the audience that shows up to your reading is very important and you can't be boring or ungrateful.”

Important Shows Reading Audience Boring Technique Tricks Ungrateful Good Reading

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“I keep going back to foundation, heritage cooking techniques from my family in Naples and Abruzzi. There are a lot of traditional dishes from those regions that I want to educate my kids' palates about, to pass down that heritage and that lineage. I think my mom would have been pleasantly surprised and absolutely thrilled to have seen all the cookbooks and all the restaurants and all the television I've done.”

“A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.”

Ifs Goal Impossible Battle Terrorism Defense Technique Terrorist Range Location

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.”

People Needs Doe Process Materials Lows Marketing Technique Advertising Acquisition Susceptibility Advertising And Marketing

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.”

Knows Different Self Matter Memories Ability Awareness Perspective Intellectual Training Conscious Technique Analysis Self Conscious Synthesis Conscious Awareness

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.”

“It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.”

War Facts President Opinion Technique Criminals Torture Interrogation Interrogation Techniques

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?”

Knows Said Used Enemy Offers Gains Historical Terror Technique Administration Fantastic Irony Torture Suspects Confession Mccain Vietnamese

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?”

Book Real Study Reader Elements Approach Pages Technique Ontology Guerrillas

Book:The Illuminati Papers

Source: The Illuminati Papers

“It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.”

“I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.”

Certain Special Accomplish Technique Amazed Facility

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).”

Birth Seven Technique Honey Delicious Jumping Birth Control

Book:A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment

Source: A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment

“There is no such thing as a completely original technique or subject.”

Subjects Originals Technique Originality

Author:Donald Lambert

“There are people who can't stand the pain. What happens is they begin to develop some kind of technique to keep out of that hole. Once they do that, they're finished. They never go any further. They're done.”

People Kind Done Happens Pain Finished Technique Holes

Author:Milton Resnick

“We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many techniques are lost, and so we're going to have a [small] reserve of teachers who can teach the vast number of interested students. We have these poor, hungry, starving people who want to learn something and no place to get it. It's a tragedy.”

People Want Ends Lost Poor Numbers Teach Teacher Students Tragedy Technique Hungry Reserves Starving Aesthetics Crawling Precipice

Author:Nelson Shanks

“If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.”

Ifs Weakness Technique Finding Yourself

Author:Nelson Shanks

“At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was harder for me back then... But that piece is special and important, because it represents vigilance and innocence; the kind of precious innocence only present at the beginning of a new artistic exploration.”

Trying Kind Stills Important Together Pieces Special Stage Harder Western Technique Drawing Artistic Chinese Innocence Working Together Exploration Vigilance

Author:Liu Dan

“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

“My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.”

Firsts Records Starting Technique Impression Pencils Outlines First Impression Second Thoughts

Author:John Newbery

“I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.”

Trying Subjects Paint Technique Handle Sydney Preconceptions Tangier

Author:John Newbery

“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.”

Source: The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science

Technique Quotes

Related topics

Technique Quotes