Technique Quotes

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To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your… — Alfred North Whitehead
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres
Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part. — Leonid Shamkovich
Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying… — Og Mandino
Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood. — Kevin Kline
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same… — Omer Bartov
Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension -… — Bob Benson
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too… — Alexander Alekhine
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its… — Aldo Rossi
Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on philosophers, but they have not been very kind to me... I have been variously called nominalist, an instrumentalist,… — Stephen Hawking
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection… — Christopher Dawson
Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values… — Theodore Levitt
There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and 'on hold', can… — Sirhan Sirhan
I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as… — Jane Asher
I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance Techniques Damage Repair 3D Rescue Leave-In Treatment makes it… — Fergie
For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was… — Peter Kreeft
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of… — Bernard Herrmann

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