Technique Quotes · Page 14

Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.

— Bruce Lee

I don't think about technique. I just pot the balls.

— Stephen Hendry

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

— Peter L. Berger

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

— Bruce Lee

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.

— Angelo Dundee

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.

— Verity Stob

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

— Amitabh Bachchan

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it…

— Arthur David Ritchie

“Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.”

— David Pye

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the…

— Lee Krasner

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

— Eric Hoffer

Over the years, I became more and more interested in the forms and techniques in which things could be said.

— Denise Duhamel

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

— Bill Bruford

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

In montage's original form as photomontage, it is capable of striking effects and on occasion it can even become a powerful political…

— Gyorgy Lukacs

Now, as for this new breed of musicians with their 'ultrasonic' conservatory technique, I say: So What. Tell me a story from…

— Woody Shaw

One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of…

— Dave Barry

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life.""Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the…

— Gelsey Kirkland

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My mentality is like a samurai they used to train every day, work on their technique to make themselves better, almost perfect,…

— Georges St-Pierre

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs…

— Timothy Leary

I don't think the political class has the slightest idea even yet what is in store for them. And I'll tell you…

— Rush Limbaugh

At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended.…

— Timothy Gowers

“It is the bane, and pleasure when creating Romance fiction, to know immersion and fulfillment for the reader are based on clarity.…

— Glenn Hefley

It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in…

— Chinua Achebe

It’s just starting. I think it’s going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody…

— Andrew Zimmern

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference,…

— Viola Spolin

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

— Leon Trotsky

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

— Bruce Lee

Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

— Isadora Duncan

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

— Bruce Lee

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

— Lawrence Durrell

To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“coffee, followed by a nap of ten to twenty minutes, is the ideal technique”

— Daniel H. Pink

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

— Camille Henrot