Technique Quotes

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Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as… — Pierre Boulez
The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting… — Umberto Eco
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities,… — Octavio Paz
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. — Jackson Pollock
If you think ahead to what to say next - like how to fix it or make the person feel better - BOOM! Off the… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? — Edvard Munch
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and… — E F Schumacher
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is… — Marvin Harris
The real challenge in crafting strategy lies in detecting subtle discontinuities that may undermine a business in the future. And for that there is no… — Henry Mintzberg
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. — James MacGregor Burns
The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an… — Bertrand Russell
The coach's job is twenty percent technical and training, and eighty per cent inspirational. He may know all there is to know about tactics, technique… — Franz Stampfl
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world. — Yvon Chouinard
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. — Tony Buzan
To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They… — Pina Bausch
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?' — Lois McMaster Bujold
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity… — Christian Lous Lange
Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought.… — Juan Gris
The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence. — John Rosemond

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