Technique Quotes - Page 31

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.

I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

The philosophies that have been inspired by scientific technique are power philosophies, and tend to regard everything non-human as mere raw material. Ends are no longer considered; only the skillfulness of the process is valued. This also is a form of madness. It is, in our day, the most dangerous form, and the one against which a sane philosophy should provide an antidote

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

With modern recording techniques, and living in the Pro Tools era, the process gets really drawn-out, and it can become painstaking.

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.