Technique Quotes
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I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.
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By the grace of God and with His help, I shall one day be a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition.
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
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Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.
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If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.
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Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
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The Operative tried to implement the Purusey breathing technique, which has been proven effective at fooling polygraphs. There is no conclusive evidence as to whether it is effective at masking the internal lie detectors of fifteen-year-old boys.
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I never learned technique; I just let my band naturally guide me in the way I play drums. I think that’s the best way to learn. Bless you if you go to school and learn technique or read music.
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Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.
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If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.
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In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
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Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique.
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Technique conquers all.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.
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I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.
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Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.
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Affirmative action is the most important modern anti-discrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination. No one who knows anything about the subject would say it hasn't worked. It has certainly done something, or else it wouldn't have provoked so much opposition.
