Technique Quotes - Page 4

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

The music has generated all the techniques I use. When I sit down to learn to play something . . . it is not because I want to master a technique. It is because I want to hear what an idea sounds like.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.

Why compose works that have to be re-created every time they are performed? Because definitive, once-and-for-all developments seem no longer appropriate to musical thought as it is today, or to the actual state that we have reached in the evolution of musical technique, which is increasingly concerned with the investigation of a relative world, a permanent 'discovering' rather like the state of 'permanent revolution'.

If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.

Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

Agile is an attitude, not a technique with boundaries. An attitude has no boundaries, so we wouldn't ask 'can I use agile here', but rather 'how would I act in the agile way here?' or 'how agile can we be, here?'

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must understand Nature before we can adapt its way of working to our needs.

Cubism is not a manner but an aesthetic, and even a state of mind; it is therefore inevitably connected with every manifestation of contemporary thought. It is possible to invent a technique or a manner independently, but one cannot invent the whole complexity of a state of mind.

I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

If you want to belong to the best, you need good technique and, perhaps even more importantly, a good eye. If you see the ball sooner, you have more time to think about how and where to return it.

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.