Technique famous quotes

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
-- A. J. Jacobs

#Jumping #Technique #Birth Control

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
-- Adam Baldwin

#Technique #Captivating #Stills

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.
-- Adrian Belew

#Vocabulary #Appreciate #Technique

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Passion #Dancer #Technique

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
-- Agnes de Mille

#Dance #Ballet #Technique

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
-- Agrippina Vaganova

#Dance #Expression #Technique

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Art #Technique #Way

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Attitude #Important #Technique

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
-- Alain Resnais

#Technique #Film #Used

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
-- Alan Chadwick

#Perfection #Technique #Invisible

The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.
-- Alan Hirsch

#People #Church #Technique

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...
-- Alan Hollinghurst

#Technique #Brilliant #Problem

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
-- Alastair Reynolds

#Lying #Technique #Ancient

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
-- Albert Claude

#Cells #Technique #Brutality

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
-- Aldo Rossi

#Technique #Architecture #Surprise

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Play #Age #Technique

People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Years #People #Technique

The only thing a master can teach is how to learn about yourself. There are no secrets. They are only techniques to waken yourself.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky

#Secret #Technique #Masters

The trouble with a lot of artists today is that they have too much technique and equipment. They don't know what to do with it all. If you cut down on it, you can work more strongly within narrower limits.
-- Alexander Calder

#Cutting #Artist #Technique

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
-- Alexandr Dolgopolov

#Technique #Classic #Changed

One day the clean technique will come to my head
-- Alexei Yagudin

#One Day #Technique

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#Cutting #Artist #Technique

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
-- Alfred Aho

#Learning #Creating #Technique

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
-- Allen Tate

#Religion #Technique #Sole

Molecular gastronomy is not bad... but without sound, basic culinary technique, it is useless.
-- Alton Brown

#Technique #Sound #Useless

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Technique #Use #Actors

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. It's more instinctive rather than anything else. I don't do the calculated rehearsed kind of approach, and I hope that I can continue that because I believe that instinct is much stronger and greater when you are performing on camera.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#Believe #Stronger #Technique

Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art.
-- Andreas Feininger

#Art #Successful #Technique

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
-- Andrew Sullivan

#War #President #Technique

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me.
-- Andrew Wyeth

#Technique #Would Be #Superficial

Training fighters is like trying to catch a fish. It's technique, not strength.
-- Angelo Dundee

#Training #Trying #Technique

He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.
-- Ann Brashares

#Loving Someone #Technique #World

I don't think we'll ever use the same sound techniques.
-- Ann Wilson

#Thinking #Technique #Sound

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
-- Anna Deavere Smith

#Self #Acting #Technique

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.
-- Anna Paskevska

#Giving #Ballet #Technique

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
-- Anna Pavlova

#Dance #Technique #Forget

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Art #Skills #Technique

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.
-- Anthony Daniels

#Real #Gestures #Technique

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
-- Arlene Croce

#Dance #Technique #Body

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

#Technique #Measurement #Enough

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.
-- Arthur Erickson

#Country #Artist #Technique

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.
-- Arthur Miller

#Drama #Technique #World

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Morning #Broken #Technique

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city-except for bombing.
-- Assar Lindbeck

#Cities #Technique #Rent Control

Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.
-- Assar Lindbeck

#Cities #Technique #Next

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...
-- Auguste Rodin

#Spiritual #Technique #Energy

It's not a certain technique, it's not a skillit's all in your mind, it's how far you want to go
-- B.J. Penn

#Mind #Technique #Want

I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Men #My Boyfriend #Technique

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
-- Barbara Walters

#Party #People #Technique

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,
-- Barry Alvarez

#Guy #Technique #Months

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
-- Bela Lugosi

#Technique #Stage #Thousand

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
-- Ben Horowitz

#Technique #Succeed #Losing

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
-- Benjamin Cardozo

#Inspirational #Inspiration #Technique

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
-- Benoit Mandelbrot

#Weather #Technique #Study

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Thinking #Power #Technique

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
-- Betty Buckley

#Teacher #Giving #Technique

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
-- Bill Bruford

#Technique #Classic #Holes

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
-- Bill Sienkiewicz

#Artist #Technique #Irrelevant

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.
-- Billy Sheehan

#Inspiration #Bass #Technique

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

#Musical #Technique #Nouns

Massage's history is rooted in technique and body knowledge, but is also about heart, healing intention and connection between therapist and client. A tension - sometimes constructive, other times uncomfortable - has been prevalent in the field between one impulse toward structure and recognition and another toward freedom and flexibility to be responsive to individual circumstances
-- Bob Benson

#Healing #Heart #Technique

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
-- Bobby Flay

#Fishing #Cooking #Technique

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.
-- Bode Miller

#School #Snowboarding #Technique

When I first moved to L.A., I discovered Roy London. I didn't know anything about the arts, the profession; I had no technique, I knew nothing, I'm fresh from Missouri. I sat in on a few classes, and they just felt a little guru-ish and just didn't feel right to me. Until I met Roy.
-- Brad Pitt

#Art #Class #Technique

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
-- Brian May

#Guitar #Gadgets #Technique

No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
-- Brian Tracy

#Priorities #Technique #Matter

Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.
-- Bruce Lee

#Support #Training #Technique

Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique.
-- Bruce Lee

#Art #Technique #Martial Arts

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
-- Bruce Lee

#Mind #Technique #Disease

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
-- Bruce Lee

#Technique #Spontaneity #Combat

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.
-- Bruce Lee

#Giving Up #Thinking #Technique

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.
-- Bruce Lee

#Simple #Goal #Technique

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
-- Bruce Lee

#Fighting #Style #Technique

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
-- Bruno Walter

#Technique #Doe #Precision

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.
-- Caio Terra

#Art #Focus #Technique

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.
-- Caio Terra

#Art #Technique #Martial Arts

Technique conquers all.
-- Caio Terra

#Mma #Technique #Conquer

When you get a black belt, it’s not the number of techniques you know, but how well you know them.
-- Caio Terra

#Numbers #Black #Technique

From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
-- Carl Safina

#Oil #Risk #Technique

A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example.
-- Carl Sagan

#Stars #Light #Technique

I don't have Romário's technique, [Marc] Overmars' pace or [Patrick] Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.
-- Carles Puyol

#Clever #Hard Work #Technique

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.
-- Carol Kane

#People #Technique #Should

Technical achievement without vision is only craft.
-- Carole Katchen

#Achievement #Vision #Technique

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.
-- Cesar Chavez

#Technique #Doe #Violent

I am here," Eric said. "And I am here." I was a little amused at Eric's phone answering technique. "Sookie, my little bullet-sucker," he said, sounding fond and warm. "Eric, my big bullshitter.
-- Charlaine Harris

#Phones #Technique #Eric

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Artist #Technique #Methodology

Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
-- Charles Guggenheim

#Art #College #Technique

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

#Play #Technique #Needs

The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.
-- Chen Chi

#Mean #Artist #Technique

Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on
-- Chris Cooper

#Years #Technique #Roles

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.
-- Chris Hadfield

#Technique #Physicians #Roles

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Inspirational #Technique #Roles

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
-- Christopher Lasch

#Technique #Masters #Owners

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.
-- Claes Oldenburg

#Art #Communication #Technique

How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.
-- Claire Cameron

#Book #Writing #Technique

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.
-- Claude Monet

#Art #Technique #Sensitive

I've always refused requests even from friends to employ a technique I know nothing about.
-- Claude Monet

#Technique #Request

I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.
-- Cozy Powell

#Play #Technique #Mouths

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.
-- Czeslaw Milosz

#Technique #Crafts #Efficiency

Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
-- D.T. Suzuki

#Art #Technique #Growing