Technique Quotes
1087 quotes by 873 authors
-
Ballet is like football. I don't understand a footballer's technique but I can see when he's playing brilliantly. People don't like ballet because they think…
— Robert Helpmann
-
Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power. Learn your technique thoroughly, immerse yourself in it, and then just…
— William Dobell
-
The techniques of Aikido change constantly; every encounter is unique, and the appropriate response should emerge naturally. Today's techniques will be different tomorrow. Do not…
— Morihei Ueshiba
-
Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.
— Gichin Funakoshi
-
Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than…
— Joe Satriani
-
If you sit down and just keep quiet...you are in the state of Self-Awareness. ..keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to…
— Mooji
-
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
— D. A. Carson
-
Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation…
— Chogyam Trungpa
-
Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.
— Stephen Fry
-
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.
— Chogyam Trungpa
-
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright
— William Hurt
-
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of…
— Paule Marshall
-
The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter…
— Viktor Schauberger
-
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation .
— Ansel Adams
-
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result…
— Thomas Merton
-
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
— Noam Chomsky
-
Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one…
— Morihei Ueshiba
-
I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.
— Jimmy Page
-
There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old,…
— C.S. Lewis
-
Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed…
— Daniel Goleman
Who Wrote These Technique Quotes
873 authors contributed a total of 1,087 Technique Quotes, led by these top contributors: