Technique Quotes
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If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
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I think one thing that is very frustrating and is something that all guitar players are looking for at all levels is “consistency”. Command and technique are all about control, and consistency means executing things at various tempos, being able to fall out bed and play guitar, as well as controlling the tones all over the instrument, such as bending, vibrato and intonation.
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It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
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Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
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If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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It is really just as bad technique to make a measurement more accurately than is necessary as it is to make it not accurately enough.
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The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body...
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I'm not a good poker player, but I've got one bluffing technique - as long as you're quick with the blinds, you're fine.
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I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
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I would rather have ideas and some difficulties of technique than a perfect technique and no ideas.
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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.
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Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.
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In short, Coltrane's tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
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“Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.”
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I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
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Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.
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This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
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I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go.
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Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.
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Legendary comic book storyteller Will Eisner put it this way: "Technique is secondary. Technique comes as a result of how you do what you do.