Technique Quotations | Page 6

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.

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

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.

Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

I would say I'm an ironist not a satirist. All you do is you take existing tendencies and crank them up, just turn up the volume dial. Which is a technique of science fiction, apart from anything else.

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

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process.

Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.

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

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

I have the manual, and the sad thing is that many of the techniques are exactly the same ones with a few enhancements by the US since World War II. So the role of our European allies and others has just really disappointed me greatly.

I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.

Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I'd rather duplicate it myself. Another of our favourite techniques.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

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.

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

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn't normally get expressed. You know there's famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is.

I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

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

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to the wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place at the wrong time For the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme On the wrong day of the wrong week I used the wrong method with the wrong technique Wrong

I have no guitar technique.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

I don’t believe in technique, I believe in performance. If you are tough, whether you have technique or not, you’ll survive.

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.

I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it].

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...

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

We cannot resolve the problems of the world by unsing the same techniques that have created them.

Sincerity is technique.

We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt objects.

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

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.

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence.

The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

The more technique there is, the less there is

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist, a positivist, a realist, and several other ists. The technique seems refutation by denigration: If you can attach a label to my approach, you don't have to say what is wrong with it... I am sure that Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac didn't worry about whether they were realists or instrumentalists.

What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.