Technique Quotes - Page 20

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.

I don't like to think that I am a slave to technique, or so inept that I have to restrict myself to one method.

You have to eat your technique. Digest it. It's in your blood, but you're not concerned with it anymore.

There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs and the skin and the introduction of external things within my own body. Consciousness is altered by physical events and physical objects, which impinge upon my sense organs, or which I introduce into my body. Now the name traditionally given to external objects or processes which change you internally is sacrament. Sacraments are the visible and tangible techniques for bringing you close to your own divinity.

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

I don't stick to special techniques, conscious techniques.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal.

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.