Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

“the technique must be learned the way I learned it, by failures”

— John Steinbeck

When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the…

— Ryron Gracie

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it's more about technique than physical strength.

— Kuno Becker

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