Technique Quotes
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Sienna Guillory
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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.
Elliott Hundley
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
William Friedkin
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
Leon Trotsky
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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.
Joshua Waitzkin
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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
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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?'
Lois McMaster
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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
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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.
Arthur David Ritchie
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If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.
William James
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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.
Wickliffe Rose
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Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One day the clean technique will come to my head.
Alexei Yagudin
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No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.
Bernard Lonergan
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It would be easier to say, what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good.
Ruggiero Ricci
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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.
Nigel Kennedy
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We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on.
Barry Alvarez
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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.
Sydney Greenstreet
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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.
Cecil Taylor
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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...
Chuck Norris
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As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster