Technique Quotes - Page 31

• I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.

  Nick Bantock

  Writing, Years, Want

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• Polytechnique is a school whose multi disciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable.

  Philippe Perrin

  School, Levels, Curriculum

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• An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

  Robert Henri

  Artist, Shining, May

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

  Ron Suskind

  Simple, People, Trying

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• I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.

  Sadaharu Oh

  Running, Strong, Home

  "Sadaharu Oh Still Feels and Thinks the Game". www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2008.

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• Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Games, Sometimes

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• I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

  Jane Lynch

  Fall, Writing, Singing

  "See Jane Laugh". Interview with Allan Fallow, www.aarp.org. September 13, 2011.

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• It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Successful, Science, Discipline

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• 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, Matter, Masters

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding that leaves the Freudian schools of technique and theory far behind. The accent is not on the curing of disease but on the enlargement, rather, of our health.

  Joseph Campbell

  School, Thinking, Broken

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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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• Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life.""Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against the pillows. "Hurry up and tell me the rest. Once Colby gets back, he probably won't tell me a thing. All he'll want to discuss is breast-feeding techniques and how tochange diapers.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Dad, Night, Want

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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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• IN THE WORLD OF advertising, every copywriter knows the power of two magic words: "Free!" and "New!" We see them in the supermarket, in the newspaper, on billboards. And consumers respond. In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches.

  Jim Cymbala

  Fall, Teaching, Two

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as something related to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannot separate technique from expression. There is only expression.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Mean, Expression, Taught

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  Larry Niven

  Moon, Want, Might

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.361, Macmillan

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• ...Jesus did not advocate non-violence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

  Walter Wink

  Jesus, Mean, Godly

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• 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.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Analysis, Moral

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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• 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, Example

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

  Frank Vincent

  Fun, Character, Doe

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• She looked confused. She looked off-balance. That's a technique I employ to get dates, and it always works.

  Gary Reilly

  Confused, Balance

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• All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

  George Gershwin

  Jobs, Past, Men

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