Technique Quotes - Page 29

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and science and there is a lot of craft - meaning experience - there is a certain amount of craft meaning insight, creativity and vision, and there is the use of science, technique or analysis.

Henry Mintzberg

Art, Creativity, Practice

CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

Deborah Bull

Strong, Feet, Dancing

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The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what he wants to achieve, and he designs his instruments and directs his thoughts accordingly. Unanticipated novelty, the new discovery, can emerge only to the extent that his anticipations about nature and his instruments prove wrong... There is no other effective way in which discoveries might be generated.

Thomas Kuhn

Men, Discovery, Design

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As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

Jenny Downham

Years, People, Community

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In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Art, Fun, Writing

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In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.

Douglas Wilson

Christian, Teaching, School

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And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not.

Dweezil Zappa

Dad, Player, Ideas

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I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

Erland Josephson

Acting, Lamps, Stage Actors

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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

Jennifer Lee

Turkeys, Childhood, Use

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Don't be afraid to adapt new ingredients into your own techniques, and traditional ingredients into new recipes.

Jose Garces

Recipes, Ingredients, Traditional

"Jose Garces, ‘Iron Chef’ Star, Finds The Latino Road To A Thanksgiving Celebration" By Zuania Ramos, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2012.

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Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.

Lynsay Sands

Use, Want

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New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us.

Marc Garneau

Technology, Safety, Achievement

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"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

Nora Roberts

Kicking, Ancient, Ass

Nora Roberts (2011). “Chasing Fire”, p.63, Penguin

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Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

Paul Stamets

Mushrooms, Numbers, Interesting

"Reishi, Ling Zhi: ‘Mushrooms of Immortality’" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2012.

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As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.

Richard Wiseman

Heart, Psychics, Feelings

Richard Wiseman (2011). “Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

Ocean, Psychology, Important

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One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

S. J. Perelman

Summer, Discovery, August

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Cooking is about presenting flavors and other aspects of food in a way that makes best use of them and makes an engaging, satisfying meal. Taste necessarily comes into it along with technique. Some ingredients require cooking, cleaning or otherwise denaturing them, some are fine as they are.

Steve Albini

Cooking, Meals, Use

"Indie Rock Food Blogs: The Steve Albini Interview". Interview with Andrew Simmons, www.laweekly.com. May 17, 2011.

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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.

B. F. Skinner

Hands, People, Community

B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

Cyril Connolly

Real, Passion, Two

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Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed: 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind.

Eric Hoffer

Frustration, Frustrated, Mind

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

John Michael Higgins

Sports, Fans, Tools

Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. June 23, 2011.

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The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

John Steinbeck

War, Self, Mexican

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...he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back.

Leslie Ford

Track, Teeth, Mouths

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For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Philosophy, Moving, Destiny

Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar

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