Activity Quote by Jacques Ellul

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

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just…

— Leo Ornstein

Action is greater than inaction. Perform therefore thy task in life. Even the life of the body could not be if there were no…

— Bhagavad Gita

Technique conquers all.

— Caio Terra

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“So, whenever you find yourself putting forth great effort without success, you're trying to force something that won't fit under the circumstances. That's a…

— Tony Vigorito

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is a difficult…

— Bertrand Russell

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“But if man genuinely produces man, it is precisely not through work and it's concrete results, not even the 'work on oneself' so widely…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches,…

— Lewis Mumford

We have come to consider the word technique applicable only to movements that are so showy as to approach acrobatics...

— La Meri

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

— Leon Trotsky