The more technique there is, the less there is

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

— Pablo Picasso

My food is about texture and technique.

— Dominique Crenn

Simple techniques for meditation can involve repetition of spiritually focused words, thoughts or ideas that help one feel at peace mentally and physically.

— Tim McCarthy

The minute you get away from fundamentals – whether its proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of…

— Michael Jordan

The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces…

— Erich Fromm

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is…

— Arundhati Roy

I like food to be really simple but have a lot of technique all the same.

— Alex Guarnaschelli

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

— Huston Smith

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that…

— Lisa Kleypas

There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain…

— Ray Stannard Baker

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

— Kathleen Rooney

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't…

— Eddie Bravo

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that…

— Max Lucado

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz