Technique Quotes

• No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • History
  • Purpose

• 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

• I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Friends
  • Technique
  • Refused

• 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 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.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Passion
  • Opponents
  • Sexual Life

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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Technique

• I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Boyfriend

• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  

  Bill Crow
  • Reading
  • Learning
  • Charts

• If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Done
  • Professional
  • Schools

• Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Art
  • Game
  • Effort

• Focusing totally on technique, you lose the essence and power of simplicity... The other extreme is just as bad; you see it in a lot of Modern works, where the concept is more important than the technique, resulting in very poor craftsmanship.

  

  George L. Carlson
  • Modern
  • Simplicity
  • Concepts

• I am the first to admit that I am no great orator or no person that got where I have gotten by any William Jennings Bryan technique.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Technique
  • Admit
  • Orator

• I think the whole point about self-control, the whole point about willpower, is to help people understand that there are endless self-nudge techniques that can be enormously helpful and are very simple.

  

  Walter Mischel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Helpful

• 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.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Evidence
  • Technique
  • Polygraphs

• 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

• Practice each of the techniques of karate repeatedly. Learn the explanations of every technique well, and decide when and in what manner to apply them when needed. Enter, counter, withdraw is the rule for torite.

  

  Anko Itosu
  • Practice
  • Technique
  • Explanations

• Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Technique
  • Case
  • Mastered

• By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Today
  • Political

• A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.

  

  Yamini Krishnamurthy
  • Personality
  • Qualities
  • Dancer

• 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

• No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

  

  Bernard Lonergan
  • Logic
  • Technique
  • Coherent

• We can detect very small differences in telomere length, and it is a very simple and fast technique where many samples can be analysed at the same time. Most importantly, we are able to determine the presence of dangerous telomeres - those that are very short.

  

  María Blasco Marhuenda
  • Differences
  • Dangerous
  • Presence

• If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

  

  William James
  • Trying
  • Positive
  • Motivational

• A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Language
  • Technique
  • Requires

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