Technique Quotes - Page 2

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

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

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

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

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 speed.

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation.

Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

Self-defense is not just a set of techniques; it’s a state of mind, and it begins with the belief that you are worth defending.

Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so mix the elements of each book that the reader must decide on each page 'How much of this is real and how much is a put-on?

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.