Technique Quotes · Page 2

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

— Gore Verbinski

My food is about texture and technique.

— Dominique Crenn

Messi has the best technique in the world.

— Neymar

I love learning new techniques.

— David Bailey

I have no guitar technique.

— Warren Zevon

A technique is a trick that works.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

— John Waters

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

— Stephen Fry

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

— Cecilia Bartoli

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

— James MacGregor Burns

Movies have now reached the same stage as sex - it's all technique and no feeling.

— Penelope Gilliatt

Technique plays a part - you have to know how to play.

— Jack White

Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

— Margaret Atwood

I'm always learning and getting better with my technique.

— Sage Northcutt

There can be no technique or formula for creativity.

— Asha Bhosle

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

— Edward Abbey

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

— Alain Ducasse

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

— Stanislaw Ulam

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but…

— Anthony Mackie

In my opinion the teaching of volleyball technique, ..., must always be correlated with tactical tasks.

— Viacheslav Platonov

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of…

— Emanuel Celler

It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

— Gautam Gambhir

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

— John Patitucci

“Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is to use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate…

— Stephen King

Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we…

— Erich Fromm

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments…

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the…

— Geena Davis

I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,…

— Philip Larkin

I never actually had a guitar lesson. I taught myself the guitar from piano exercise books, which led me to have a…

— Trevor Rabin

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I…

— Adrien Brody

Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes…

— Michael Chabon

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his…

— Sam Hinton

I prefer formal techniques, and use sonnets and rhyme, any manner of scheme to give a shape and order-of feeling as well…

— J. D. McClatchy

The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the…

— Greg Chappell

I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much…

— Fay Godwin

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

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