“The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.” BodyAgeSidesDarkMoonMachinesTechniqueYour BodyKingdomsContactAliensDark SideUraniumMesopotamiaMicrochips Author:Immortal Technique
“Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.” WholeWonderTechniqueWhole LifeSubwayMulticultural Author:Immortal Technique
“The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.” WantWellsPersonsDesireKeysListeningTechnique Author:Steve Goodier
“I'm all about working with directors that are doing different techniques and I think everyone has their way of getting it to the place that they think is best.” ThinkingWayDifferentDirectorsTechnique Author:Liam Hemsworth
“Not the challenges necessarily, but the way in which you get ready because your technique has improved over the years and you perhaps know how to be more economical than perhaps you used to be when you tried to work perhaps too hard.” KnowsWayYearsHardUsedChallengesKnow HowReadyTechniqueUsed To Be Author:Christopher Plummer
“Theater roles are written by the great masters. The greatest literature that you can possibly know are the theater roles like King Lear, Hamlet, and all of those great roles. So all you do is you dive into these unchallenged roles and see how far you can get, what kind of accolades you can get, and how good you can be in them. In movie roles, you can actually improve them by knowing a lot about your own stage technique, which helps a great deal in the cinema and how you can project inner humor even though the particular dialogue is not necessarily funny, but you can infuse it with humor.” KnowsKindHelpingLiteratureDealsRolesKnowingWrittenStageParticularMastersKingsProjectsTheaterTechniqueDialogueCinemaLearAccolades Author:Christopher Plummer
“I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.” ThinkingNeedsWritingUseJoyPurposePerfectEmotionHeardExpressionSorrowTragedyNotesOneselfTechniqueProseHittingOne Word Author:Charlie Albright
“When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected.” PeopleKnowsHumansI CanFeelingsHuman BeingsLaughingKnowingHonestCommunicationCommunicateConnectedTechniqueReactionsConnectingMaking People LaughCommunicating With Others Author:Brian Regan
“Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the designing are all the same. The technique of animation has changed, in the sense that rather than drawing it by hand, we use a computer as a tool. The computer has become a pencil to draw or paint the images that we see in a film.” MadeUseHandsTodayFilmCertainDesignChangedComputerDrawsToolsPaintProductionsTechniqueDrawingPencilsAnimationStoryboarding Author:Rob Minkoff
“We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.” ArtistPiecesTechniqueErasCrucial Author:Rob Nilsson
“Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.” PeopleThinkingDifferentKidsFilmAudienceStudiosTechniqueStorytellingGenreTragicAnimationSpectrumOlder PeopleDifferent Genres Author:Bill Plympton
“To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.” GivingPlayLightMightAbleChallengesHonestGiving UpOvercomingDifficultyGreenTechniqueBeing HonestPianoFrustratedTrafficProdigiesTraffic Light Author:George Li
“Without technique, it doesn't matter what your ideas are; you would not be able to do what you want. It's something that you always need to work on. It's also important to never forget the feeling for the music, the imagination.” WantNeedsImportantIdeasMatterFeelingsAbleImaginationForgetWhat You WantTechniqueNever Forget Author:George Li
“Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.” StillsQualityConceptsTechniqueMealsTheoreticalSeasoningForward Motion Author:Gerard Cox
“There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.” UseChristianOrderCoursesAbilityCompassionMeditationBuddhismMethodForgivingTechniqueDevotionBuddhistMonkNun Author:Dalai Lama
“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.” PeopleDifferentSelfWould BeValuesCultureStuffBlackTelevisionProductsPleaseSafeSellsIncludingTechniqueConsumersIronyShockAgendasCynicismEthosBlack Humor Author:David Foster Wallace
“Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.” WantKindBookUseTurnsReadingEnjoyHappenedBecomingPagesTrackTechniqueSpoilNoticing Author:Homer Hickam
“You've got to be a good reader. So whatever genre that you're interested in, read a lot of books about it and it's better than any kind of writing class you'll ever take. You will absorb techniques and then in a lot of cases you can just start writing using the style of the book or the author that you admire and then your own style will emerge out of that. Be a diligent reader and then try to write seriously, professionally and approach everything in writing in a professional way.” WayWritingTryingKindBookClassCasesStyleReaderApproachTechniqueAdmireGenreDiligent Author:Homer Hickam
“My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.” ThinkingMadeStillsDifferentPlayAbleFatherNumbersPiecesInfluenceInstrumentsSevenMusicalAlbumsVariousTechniqueTeensClassical MusicMusical Instruments Author:Steve Hackett
“I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life... And I wanted to write music, and I didn’t know what I was doing and I never had the technique or understanding of it... But I’ve always played the piano and I can improvise on the piano, but the problem is that I can’t write down what I write. I can read music but I can’t write numbers.” KnowsWritingI CanPlayProblemWantedFeltUnderstandingMusicianTechniqueLimitationPianoI Can Read Author:Anthony Hopkins
“The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as well as the participant, and the purpose of it is to activate the parts of the mind that are not activated by everyday activity ... 'Magic' becomes the development of techniques that allow communication with hidden portions of the self, and with hidden portions of all other islands in this 'psychic sea.'” MindHumansWellsSelfPurposeHuman BeingsAudienceMagicSeaCommunicationDevelopmentDramaActivitySacredEverydayTechniqueIslandsRitualPortionsPsychicsPaganismParticipantsActivate Author:Margot Adler
“Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.” PeopleKnowsWayNeedsFeelsDifferentUseMightTogetherCertainThreeForceBitsFiveFourSingingPicksTechniqueSingersCombinationNo PointAlchemyInterchange Author:Bob Dylan
“I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all work to his or her method. On film, if an actor or an actress is in for a day or two, the director has to get out of that actor what they need, so they have to change and adapt to that actor's technique.” IfsNeedsTwoRunningFilmActorsRoomsDirectorsTheaterMethodActressesTechniqueVariety Author:Eddie Redmayne
“Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.” PeopleBehindsStageFineOkayTechniqueTake TimeVipassana Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you have to react and respond as the character you're trying to play. You have to service the story, and I think improv training has helped with my listening, responding, and my audition technique. It's sounds so silly, but it's true. Because not only do you improvise during the audition, but once you get the part, they'll say, "Throw away everything. Just improv this scene. Do whatever you want." Someone could panic if they're not used to doing something like that.” IfsThinkingWantTryingPlayCharacterStoriesUsedStuffSoundMaterialsListeningSceneTrainingTechniqueSillyBunchPanicAuditionsRespondingDo Whatever You WantFunny Stuff Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.” PeopleDifferentAbleFacesSportsMountainBiggerBlindTechniqueIceDevelopingClimbingGreat SportsSnowyBlind PeopleSnowy Mountains Author:Erik Weihenmayer
“I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.” IfsFeelsLooksMeanSingingTechniqueSingersConventional Author:The Weeknd
“Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.” DoeViolenceMereKillingTechniqueImprovementNonviolence Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“The Kit Kat candy bar has the name Kit Kat imprinted into the chocolate. That robs you of chocolate! That's a clever chocolate-saving technique.” HumorFunnyNamesTechniqueCleverBarsSavingChocolateCandyCandy Bar Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I was always the fastest and strongest kid in my school so events like the 100 meter and discus throwing attracted me. I could throw the discus for great distance s without the proper spin and throw technique.” KidsSchoolEventsDistanceTechniqueStrongestThrowingMeter Author:Bo Jackson
“Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.” IfsKnowsFirstsReadingBlessingLet MeMy FavoriteTechniqueBarsCursePastime Author:Anna Quindlen
“I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique.” WantI CanWatchesMinesTechniquePeersMechanicYoutubeUnorthodox Author:Eric Hernandez
“It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer.” KnowsWayPlayAbleLastsTechnique Author:Eric Hernandez
“If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.” IfsThinkingGivingShouldLittlesDifferentJobsArtistBitsSubjectsPersonalityOughtTasteJokesConceptsOkayCreditTechniqueCraftsDifferent ThingsExcessIndulgeConstraintsEditorialsBad Taste Author:Bill Watterson
“Sin is a technique of the pseudo-religions. A true religion has no need of the concept at all. The pseudo-religion cannot live without the concept of sin, because sin is the technique of creating guilt in people.” PeopleNeedsSinCreatingConceptsGuiltTechniqueTrue ReligionPseudo Author:Rajneesh
“Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.” PeopleFeelsBodyEarthSpeakSimpleTreeAwarenessRootsTechniqueOaksConnectednessOak Tree Author:Eckhart Tolle
“What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.” ThinkingDoeImportantIntuitionTechniqueUnderrated Author:Stacy Peralta
“You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.” PeopleIfsGivingSoulSpiritTeachAppreciateVariousTechniqueCrafts Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.” PeopleBookEndsLevelsCareersNovelExampleTechniqueSettingSettingsMetaphorical Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.” ThinkingWorldWayHas BeensCountryMovingIndividualEnergyHealingPracticeCenturyTheoryDevelopmentInspiredSpreadTechniqueBunchVehicleOther CountriesEnergy HealingPosseAyurvedaTheory And PracticeShakti Author:Robert Svoboda
“In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine system, through imagination, visualization, breathing techniques, which in a sense come into the scientific aspects. So magic is a combination, its a soup, a delightful combination of art, imagination, visualization, fantasy, with a healthy dose of solid basis, because it is a science. The thing is we've lost the keys.” BelieveArtI CanCertainLostI BelieveImaginationFantasyEnvironmentMagicKeysHealthyElementsAspectBasesTechniqueCombinationBreathingSoupDelightfulDoseVisualization Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
“My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.” WholeMomentsWould BeGamesSleepHeroSkillsTechniqueIdolsMy HeroHolland Author:Rafael van der Vaart
“There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out from the daily pace of life to close their eyes and reflect on thoughts or images that create internal feelings of peace and relaxation.” PersonsDifferentFeelingsEyeFormCommonMeditationElementsTechniqueInternalsPaceTake TimeRelaxationPace Of Life Author:Tim McCarthy
“Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.” FeelsIdeasHelpingSimpleMeditationFocusedTechniqueRepetition Author:Tim McCarthy
“No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.” MindMatterUseMeditationDown AndNo Matter WhatTechniqueInternalsSlow DownSurroundings Author:Tim McCarthy
“I think during the day, when I was doing the Masterchef experience, everything I'd learnt in yoga, the breathing techniques, etc, would really help and it would calm me down because it was so stressful.” ThinkingHelpingYogaCalmTechniqueBreathingEtcStressfulMasterchef Author:Jayne Middlemiss
“I worked closely with Steve Peters, the British Cycling team's psychologist, and we came up with a strategy of dealing with the pressure. It basically involved displacing the negative thoughts with visualisation. Not a complicated technique, but very effective if done properly. I just kept running through the race in my head over and over so that I wouldn't let the distractions around me put me off.” IfsDoneRunningRaceTeamInvolvedNegativePressureStrategyComplicatedBritishTechniqueDistractionPeterPsychologistCyclingNegative Thoughts Author:Chris Hoy
“I think I've gotten technically better over the years but you'd have to be a fool not to. I've made so many movies that by sheer quantity you get better at the technique.” ThinkingYearsMadeFoolTechniqueGet BetterQuantitySheer Author:Woody Allen
“Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.” KindRealUseComedySceneHarderTechniqueBeing Real Author:Jack Nicholson
“But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.” TryingKindRealityDarkAliveCreaturesTechniqueAll KindsRealismCrystalsMixing Author:Jim Henson