Top 455 Technique Quotes

I think playing somebody who’s schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can’t rely on your technique, your external stuff. You’ve really gotta look inward, in a way.

Jiu-jitsu is very ‘democratic,’ it does not matter how you are physically – it is all about your mind, and a lot of technique.

I am a defender, but I can play the ball. I have a good technique.

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it’s very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they’re in show business.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

I think I’m the same dancer everywhere. But I’ve learned a lot with Bolshoi – the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you’re a sportsman or you’re a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you’re doing at any given time.

Astronomers are using every technique at their disposal to discover and study asteroids.

In a day and age when there are so many culinary competitions – ranging from contests of taste to those of technique – The World Food Championships will be the ultimate food competition.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn’t it?

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask ‘why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

With Bolshoi technique, the movements are quite large, the jumps are big, and I’m a tall dancer, so I’ve learned to use my height more, to elongate my moves, jumps and positions. I’m physically using my body more to my advantage.

Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it’s worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It’s like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

Technique is of less interest than character and story.

I know my technique suits all sorts of wickets, so I just back myself.

When you punch somebody in the ring, you have to use your whole body. I learned that it’s more about technique than physical strength.

Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.

The East Germans first used biomechanics. This meant that rather than guessing about technique and form, they could apply changes to athletic performance based on science.

I always get frustrated when I hear someone talking about sweep arpeggios. Though there are plenty of licks and examples out there, no one has ever really broken down the mechanics of the technique. As a result, guitarists have had to figure them out by trial and error.

I’m going to do the old ‘plaster removal’ technique and just get the pain over with in one go: ‘Life’s Too Short’ isn’t funny to me.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We’re meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.

I thought I knew how to jug, but when you only jug 30 meters to the top of a sport climb, you don’t need good technique. But jugging 400 meters, that’s a big deal.

I play by ear – I’m self-taught. And so everything I do is through that technique.

All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

I didn’t learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal technique; I am not talking about how to sing. I am talking about how to produce a sound.

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.

Once I throw, I immediately know how well I have done, or how badly, from the effort I have put in and the way the rhythm and technique comes together.

I’m beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Anytime I get to get out there, to help somebody with a technique, a fundamental, I’m in my happy place.

I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event – the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You have to play the game before you hit a home run, right?

Most of the computer compromises that we hear about use a technique called spear phishing, which allows an attacker access to a key person’s workstation. It’s extremely difficult to defend against.

On the McGuire course, there’s a technique called ‘cancellation’ where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you’re a young director, and it’s something that’s a mixture of instinct and technique.

This is a full-contact sport. It’s the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You’ve got to use your technique.

I think there’s sexiness in infield hits because they require technique.

Simmering vegetables in a covered pot over low heat so that they steam in their own liquid – a French technique called a l’etouffee – is the ticket to achieving a soup with pronounced depth.

You shouldn’t think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, ‘I can play this, and I can show you that.’

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Tempura chefs are sort of like the Jedi of the cooking world: They must deftly perform with the utmost skill and precision, using extremely dangerous tools, all while maintaining a calm, serene demeanor. It is an elegant technique, from a more civilized time.

The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I’m always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I’m ready to go.

His ball technique is superb, but most importantly, he can react to how the game develops. At the last possible moment in any situation, he can find the ideal solution. There are a lot of ways that Messi can finish an attack.

Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.

For example I don’t work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They’re different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don’t impose that on the actors.

I like a match that shows strength, stamina, scientific technique.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

If a player has good technique and a good basic speed, but is slow in the head, this may reduce his value to the team.

I’m not a chef. I haven’t created any new technique in the kitchen. I’m not a rocket scientist. I think I’m good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That’s what I think I’m good at.

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don’t cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that’s what the student needs to learn: the technique.

We have to have each other’s back. That’s just football. That’s how it’s been since we were younger. Before you learn technique and scheme when you’re a little kid, you’re out there scrapping.

If you broke down my technique, it wouldn’t really take a rocket scientist to do so.

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in ‘straw-man device, technique or issue,’ was popularized in American culture by ‘The Wizard of Oz.’