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.
 Flannery O'Connor
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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.
 Lewis H. Lapham
					 
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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
 Benjamin Cardozo
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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.
 Flannery O'Connor
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Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.
 Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
 Caio Terra
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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.
 Anna Paskevska
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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.
 Wu Guanzhong
					 
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Playing Shakespeare requires technique. You don't play a Bach toccata by getting in the mood.
 Kevin Kline
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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.
 Sarah Rees Brennan
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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.
 Brad Alan Lewis
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
 Wolfgang Weingart
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Technique conquers all.
 Caio Terra
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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
 Richard Thompson
					 
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To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.
 Arthur Rubinstein
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If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.
 Paco de Lucía
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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.
 Juan Diego Florez
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In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with.
 Philip Glass
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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.
 Boney James
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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.
 Noah Bernardo P.O.D.
					 
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It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
 B.J. Penn
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Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique.
 Paul Signac
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One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.
 Frederic Chopin
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I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.
 Erland Josephson