Technique Quotes

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  Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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• The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Worry

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.

  Pablo Casals

  Art, Perfect, Political

  Quoted in Julian Lloyd Webber The Song of the Birds (1985).

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• Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

  Leon Trotsky

  Writing, Cases

  Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.168, Haymarket Books

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• If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

  Nelson Shanks

  Finding Yourself, Weakness, Ifs

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• Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Motivational, Dance, Running

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Usain Bolt

  Motivational Sports, Transition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Learn technique; have full command to the extent of not being conscious of how it is done. When craftsmanship has been developed, you are free to create... technique will give way to expression!

  Sergei Bongart

  Expression, Giving, Done

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• With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

  Paul Gauguin

  Thinking, Practice, Crafts

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• Technical achievement without vision is only craft.

  Carole Katchen

  Achievement, Vision, Crafts

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• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Method

  "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.

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• The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Crafts, Forgotten, Wells

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• You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

  Jackson Pollock

  Trying, Results, Painter

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• There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

  Frances Mayes

  Way, Cooks

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• The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

  Kevin Kline

  Relaxation, Mind, Centeredness

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• Find your own technique.

  John French Sloan

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• Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and you are not allowed to escape. You are not to go outside, you are not to entertain yourself, you are not to do, you are not to talk, you are not to read novels and detective stories. No thrill. No possibility to escape anywhere.

  Rajneesh

  Boredom, Thrill, Stories

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• The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

  Immortal Technique

  Causes, Purpose, Life Is

  Song: The Martyr, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  Bruno Walter

  Doe, Precision, Concentrating

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• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Mean, Differences

  Jackson Pollock, Gagosian Gallery (1990). “Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990”

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• The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

  William Hurt

  Energy, Stage, Knots

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• I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.

  Joanne Woodward

  Healing, Effectiveness, Long

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• Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Thinking, Silence

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• I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.

  Immortal Technique

  Kids, Fans, Acid

  Song: Reverse Pimpology

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• My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Hatred, Revolution

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