Technique Quotes

• 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
  • Because
  • Players
  • Diligently

• Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Event
  • Rarely
  • Referring

• This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Production
  • Developed
  • Distribution

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • Important
  • Done
  • Action

• 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
  • Voice
  • Breath
  • Technique

• Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.

  

  George Aaron Barton
  • Sports
  • Inspired
  • Cutting

• 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
  • Life
  • Miracle
  • Technique

• 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
  • Found
  • Movement
  • Cameras

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

  

  Philippe Halsman
  • Technique
  • Tricks
  • Photographers

• I would INSIST this record is in NO WAY COLD influenced. Don't get me bent though, I have been a huge fan of Cold from day one. One of the best most awesome song writers. Kelly has in OWN sound, He recorded on the POINT OF ORIGIN Record so there, of course, will be something that familiarizes the Cold sound. But Allele is much heavier, and just kind of warmer, different techniques and a different sound all together. Allele I think is more intense.

  

  Wally Wood
  • Different
  • Together
  • Song

• I like the wrestling and executing the throws. My dad was a wrestler and he showed me some of those techniques, too.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Dad
  • Wrestling
  • Technique

• In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Past
  • Marketing
  • Technique

• “Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.”

  

  David Pye
  • Care
  • Technique
  • Workmanship

• 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
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Technique

• I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Pleasure
  • Used
  • Analysis

• The more technique there is, the less there is.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Technique

• I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Feels
  • Ability
  • Results

• No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Reality
  • Human Community
  • Secure Place

• I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

  

  Ellen von Unwerth
  • Playing
  • Obsession
  • MAle

• Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Art
  • Photograph
  • Synthesis

• When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.

  

  Caio Terra
  • Black
  • Numbers
  • Technique

• Jazz is musical humor. The noun jazz describes a modern American technique for the playing of any music, accompanied by noise called harmony, and interpolated instrumental effects. It also describes music exhibiting influence of that technique which has as its traditional object to secure the effects of surprise, or in the broadest sense, humor.

  

  Bix Beiderbecke
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Humor

• I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Matter
  • Certainty
  • Repeats

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

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Problem
  • Technique
  • Redundancy

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