Technique Quotes · Page 3

The best technique is none at all.

— Henry Miller

Find your own technique.

— John French Sloan

I'm always thinking 'technique, technique.'

— Mackenzie Dern

Working is a great distraction technique.

— Phyllis Logan

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

— John Waters

A technique is a trick that works.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

— Stephen Fry

The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.

— Ann Reinking

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

— Caio Terra

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

— William James

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Stewart Copeland

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

— Andreas Feininger

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

— Diana Vreeland

My technique has always been to include all the periphery around me.

— Martin Landau

“The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

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

— Martha Stewart

“approach and technique, or else you risk mixing them together and end with up a style of music called fusion,”

— Damien Peters

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

— Daniel Boulud

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by…

— Milton Friedman

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much…

— Joe Satriani

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

— John Milton

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

— Frederick Lenz

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot…

— Leo Ornstein

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to…

— Stephen Hunter

The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to…

— Fritz Reiner

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into…

— Alvin Toffler

Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what…

— David Lynch

I believe that we're all connected to each other with an invisible spiritual thread through which we can transmit energy emissions and…

— Uri Geller

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine…

— Joseph Goebbels

Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He…

— Rob Halford

I don't think I had any idea at the time how to work with someone as masterful as he is. And I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how…

— Thomas Kuhn

The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes,…

— Raymond Chandler

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides,…

— Linus Pauling

If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better -…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very…

— Kehinde Wiley

A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives…

— Louis Kahn

We take for granted that we need to take showers, clean our house, and wash our clothes. Yet the mind and its…

— Anodea Judith

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique

— Edmund White