Technique Quotes · Page 9

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

— Paul Newman

I'm in full support of that technique [meditation] , and what David Lynch is doing. It's very important.

— James Redford

Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so…

— Patrick O'Brian

In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't…

— Cecil Taylor

I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so…

— Sally Schneider

Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.

— Leonid Shamkovich

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the…

— Steven Pressfield

J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which…

— Michael O'Brien

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and…

— Jeremy Irons

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

— Martha Stewart

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from…

— Dada Maravilha

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market…

— Christian Lous Lange

In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest…

— Leon Trotsky

I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities…

— John Steinbeck

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

— Kay WalkingStick

If your opponent is tapping, your technique is good. If he is not tapping, your technique sucks.

— Carlson Gracie

Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique

— Jeff Van Gundy

I've found that techniques and practices of energy medicine offer healings that are often quicker, safer, and more effective than many better…

— Jed Diamond

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in the technique of seeing - that is,…

— Kimon Nicolaides

Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Many books on communication are strong on theory but impractical on application. Marshall Rosenberg's instant classic is the stand-out exception. It is…

— Hugh Prather

The techniques should not be practised simply so they can be performed in the kata. Since karate is a fighting art each…

— Shigeru Egami

I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad…

— Bobby Flay

There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot…

— Bertrand Russell

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

— Alain Resnais