Technique Quotes

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Making people laugh is a technique that can stir joy or sorrow, just as a well‑timed joke can change a mood. Scientists also call it a technique when they invent tools to peek inside atoms, showing that technique can be a precise instrument. Writers and cooks remind us that technique can be taught, practiced, and even hidden in simple food.

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My food is about texture and technique.

Dominique Crenn

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Messi has the best technique in the world.

Neymar

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I love learning new techniques.

David Bailey

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I have no guitar technique.

Warren Zevon

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My strength makes my technique better.

Ovince Saint Preux

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In love as in art, good technique helps.

Mason Cooley

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The bagger is the technique of lazy.

Daniele Bagnoli

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Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Gore Verbinski

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Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Masaaki Hatsumi

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Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from yourself.

Masaaki Hatsumi

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

Renee Fleming

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“Patience is not a lack of action. It’s a tactical technique.”

Sarah Hays Coomer

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Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

Didier Drogba

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I'm a total ho for any writing workshop, any technique from anyone.

Travis Morrison

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

Martha Graham

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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Agnes de Mille

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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at…

W. H. Auden

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The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to…

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Ron Ben-Israel

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Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Bruce Lee

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Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For…

Rachel Kushner

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Many people believe the names of In 'n Out and Steak 'n Shake perfectly describe the contrast in bedroom techniques between the…

Roger Ebert

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Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses.…

Ryan Blair

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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…

Eric Hernandez

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There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their…

Ozzy Osbourne

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To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a…

David Rees

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The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in…

John Singer Sargent

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There are people who are great technical players like Eric Clapton, and there are people who are great intuitive songwriters like Daniel…

Jeffrey Lewis

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THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture.…

Morihei Ueshiba

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Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the…

Stacy Schiff

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In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make…

Kathleen Rooney

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Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for…

Edsger Dijkstra

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I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,…

Charlie Albright

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More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a…

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his…

Paul Feyerabend

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The science and technology which have advanced man safely into space have brought about startling medical advances for man on earth. Out…

Hubertus Strughold

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“Among the things she said: "Women seem to possess all the natural gifts essential to a good portraitist ... such as personality,…

Whitney Otto

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How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

Vanessa Redgrave

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“Sheila taught me a survival technique for getting through seemingly intolerable situations-boring lunches, stern lectures on attitude or time management, those necessary…

david rakoff

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“Working on a typewriter by touch, like riding a bicycle or strolling on a path, is best done by not giving it…

Lewis Thomas

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