Technique Quotations | Page 5

No technique is possible when men are free.... Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being.

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

Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

For a defensive line, that's terrible, ... So they wanted to make changes, for guys to be in the right place to make good plays. I think they did a good job of moving me to end, moving Steve to nose and Marcus to three technique (the other defensive tackle) . . . I think this is my year. I worked hard in the offseason, I busted my butt.

It's a lot more fun. We blitz a lot more. We really utilize our speed and we're using a lot better technique than what we were using last year. This blitzing defense really shows you we have a lot of speed on defense.

It's very complicated, especially when you have some of these defensive gurus who come with all kinds of blitzes and stunts. It's very confusing. You really have to be on your technique and know what you're doing.

The nylon-string guitar has no more powerful advocate on the current jazz scene than Ken Hatfield, whose virtuosic fingerstyle technique is matched by an exceptional compositional gift and who succeeds better than most at stretching the boundaries of his instrument while playing and writing music that feels as friendly and naturally straight-ahead as anything by Charlie Byrd or Wes Montgomery.

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

This paper is interesting and provocative, and if the value of this technique is validated in other studies, from other centres, this imaging approach may be a valuable surrogate marker of brain function in HIV infection.

They have a reputation for big, bold, sometimes aggressive playing. There is a real intensity in his playing. The technique is formidable.

It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

It's early in the year, the team hasn't been together very much, and right now, its just the technique of finishing over and over again to get the team confident. I think we created all the chances we needed to win the game today, but you have to score the goals.

It's exciting; it's indicative that my hard work is translating into good performances, especially in the weight where I don't throw with great technique and rely more on athleticism and strength.

We have to counter with technique and game plans. I think our kids have responded well to the coaching, and they are more focused on what we are saying. They are more attentive, and I think we are where we should be as far as conditioning.

We challenged our agency to depict the life experiences of our frequent business travelers in a thoughtful and differentiated way. The quality and uniqueness of Dragon's innovative animation technique helps us to achieve our goal of making that special connection with our most valued customers.

It's a combination of things. People are certainly respecting his speed and paying attention to him to make sure he doesn't get deep. They're trying to not let us get the ball to him. Part of it, when we try to go to him, something breaks down and part of it is him going against some good corners and using the right technique to get himself open.

It was a superb goal, ... Mike showed great technique for a freshman.

It's a good feeling for the kids. We finally get that 0-2 monkey off our back. It was nice for them to understand if we execute and use proper technique we can have some success.

We had three new starters, but two of the guys (guards Matt Lawrence and Jason Palermo) had significant playing time. They're fifth-year seniors. They've been in the program a long time. They know what it is to work. They know what the technique you've got to have in order to be a Big Ten offensive lineman, especially at Wisconsin.

We have a big challenge this week in getting ready to stop a quarterback who's a great player and who is literally a D-I quarterback, ... He's been doing a good job for Furman and our defense has got to play proper technique on Saturday. We also have to communicate and make sure that we don't break our assignments.

This technique is not ready for prime time now.

This technique requires both sides of your brain -- analytical and creative.

This technique shortens the amount of treatment and the recovery time for the patient. People are able to resume most normal daily activities quickly, and there are no scars.

This technique was used in all three of the attacks.

It's good because you get two different points of view on stroke technique or stuff like that.

It's his confidence level. When he's shooting the ball like that, it's not really technique or none of that stuff. It all has to do with confidence and his confidence is through the roof right now.

There's a lot of technique involved and the way (throws coach Dennis Kline) sets up our training, our distances go up and up as the season progresses.

There will be a few recipes in the show that feature national sponsor ingredients. When we're putting a show together, we want to have a variety of dishes and pick out a few things that we think are new and different and some things that have some teaching technique as well.

They're athletes, very well physically prepared players. Besides that, their technique and tactical skills are matured.

This kind of technique will enable medical centers like ours to to bring advances in medical techniques to others more quickly.

They're getting better every game. I felt Max made big steps this past week, just his technique and focus and being able to play a whole half. I don't know if he had any mental mistakes.

They're a lot like us defensively. Last year we were mirror images and the game was 6-0 so it showed that. Their kids play technique on defense and they get after it. They're physical. And like everybody else, they're bigger than us.

I auditioned for ballet, but they called me up after the audition and asked if I'd take an acceptance in modern because they liked to watch me move, and my technique was terrible.

I competed in the high jump in high school, but I wasn't very good. My technique was to stand around looking intimidating because I was so tall.

I can apply a lot of things, ... Lining up, technique and things like that, and doing it consistently, play after play. He doesn't make bad reads. He gets after it. He's always around the ball. Things like that you can always pick up from him.

I developed an interest in nuclear magnetic resonance, which was then emerging as a powerful technique for studying molecular structure.

I applaud Senator Feinstein and Governor Schwarzenegger who are part of the growing bipartisan coalition of leaders determined to give hope to patients and families suffering from chronic disease and injury. However, the Brownback bill in the United States Senate would prohibit a technique that allows critical patient-specific stem cell research. If passed, this would have overwhelming and devastating consequences to the advancement of medical science here in California and around the world, severely harming our research funding program in California and undermining the basic right of families in this country to gain access to ethical therapies to help their loved ones. We owe it to the future of California and the nation to follow the vision of hope for patients.

I don't see any major issues with Dante other than getting his track legs back. His technique isn't an issue and his speed is fine. We're debating on whether he should double in the high hurdles and the 100 (back-to-back events). The guy's a horse.

That was one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture.

This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.

The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too. Then smudging can help make the painting invincible, surreal, more enigmatic - that's how easy it is.

Technique is the test of sincerity.

I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

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.

Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Today anything can be done - we have the techniques

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

If you learn a recipe, you can cook the recipe. If you learn the technique, you can cook anything.

In the psychological realm of relationship between teacher and child, the teacher's part and its techniques are analogous to those of the valet; they are to serve, and to serve well: to serve the spirit.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

All methods and techniques - and of course all human beings who propound them - are merely instruments to help the student obtain a methodless, technique-free, teacherless state.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.

A much more effective and lasting method of facelifting than surgical technique is happy thinking, new interests and outdoor exercise.

How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

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.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

There's a never-ending ocean of techniques out there.

She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

The local media are questioning his technique and he is not as prolific as he has been. He is susceptible to the ball nipping back off the seam and does not move his feet as well as he used to. I do not want to tempt providence but, for all his class, he is not as destructive as he was and he can be contained.

The main thing I had to do was refine my technique and I've done that drastically. I worked on my footwork and my hands with these coaches. I'm having fun again.

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

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.

Find your own technique.