The American actor is much more used to being physically relaxed and using their bodies better, and English actors are a little bit unrelaxed, but they’re better at vocal technique.
You don’t write on tour; it takes all your concentrating to make the gig – that’s survival technique. Afterwards, you run around town to find interesting hipsters and go to all the interesting spots. You got to go to every hotspot until everything has closed down.
The batting coach does his job. He tells them the basic faults and helps them improve their technique. But if the batsman is in form then he has to carry that form.
You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that’s what makes it fun.
I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do. I don’t adhere to any methods, because I simply don’t believe in them. I think each pianist must ultimately carve his own way, technically and stylistically.
Woodley has tremendous athleticism, brings a lot of technique – well-rounded fighter.
I just need to know my technique and visualize it.
When I returned to Armenia after four months in Brazil, I was still quite skinny and weak, but I had technique and skill.
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
I don’t practise indirect free-kicks, but the technique and how I strike the ball I practise a lot.
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that’s right and that officer should be held accountable.
People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can perform and that provides that relaxation and also a little bit of broader perspective.
I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all projected our own meanings onto his jarring word choices and unexpected chord changes.
No matter how many great things you say about Jacques Pepin, there’s always more. Through his books and videos, he taught me the importance of technique in the kitchen, but, more significantly, he showed me what it means to be a great teacher and educator.
Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.
I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
I never had a problem with technique.
We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.
There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn’t talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good.
You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.
Obviously you’ve got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can’t do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don’t do, just trying to improve my game.
I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn’t exist without the other.
I was one of the first practitioners of social engineering as a hacking technique, and today it is my only tool of use, aside from a smartphone – in a purely white hat sort of way. But if you don’t trust me, then ask any reasonably competent social engineer.
I’m good at penalties, either using power or technique when I’m shooting.
