"Find your own technique."

-- John French Sloan

#Technique Quotes

“This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it.”
“The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.”
“I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.”
“You have to look at the body of work you're doing and then figure out the best way for people to digest it. You want people to come in and listen to all of it and understand the entire project. I think it's bad when everyone's like, "This is how you have to do it."”

Source : "Interview: Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff Talk Upcoming Joint Tour and Share Their Favorite Albums of 2015". Interview with Edwin Ortiz, www.complex.com. June 10, 2015.
“I just stopped liking basketball. And then you dribbling down the court and having the owner like cuss at you and call you an idiot. I didnt even look forward to coming to the games, and if the owner [Donald Sterling] came to the game, I definitely was not gonna have a good game because it was just like, how do you play when the main heckler in the gym is the owner of the team, and hes telling you how much he hates you and calling out your name?”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q & A with… Baron Davis". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. March 4, 2012.
“I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.”

Source : Rudolf Clausius (1867). “The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and to the Physical Properties of Bodies”, p.365
“Running has taken me in, and continues to comfort, heal and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a 'good runner' because I am me. I am a good 'me' because I am a runner.”

Source : Kristin Armstrong (2011). “Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run”, p.3, Rodale
“Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.”

Source : Hersh Shefrin (2000). “Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing”, p.110, Oxford University Press

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