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Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. -- Rudolf Nureyev
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
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson Pollock
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors. -- Leonard Bernstein
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. -- Pablo Casals
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. -- Leon Trotsky
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. -- Martha Graham
The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright -- William Hurt
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. -- Ezra Pound
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning. -- Paul Newman
There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare. -- Jim Lehrer
I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you. -- John Cleese
Technical achievement without vision is only craft. -- Carole Katchen
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more. -- Benjamin Cardozo
All I have to do is to work on transition and technique. -- Usain Bolt
You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result. -- Jackson Pollock
The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. -- Raymond Chandler
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. -- Pablo Picasso
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
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
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
Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage. -- John Bolton
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
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. -- Marshall McLuhan
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
Technique conquers all. -- Caio Terra
Technique is the test of sincerity. -- Ezra Pound
Technique is nothing more than failed style. -- John Waters
Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them. -- Mason Cooley
Technique is everything and we play a contact sport. -- Troy Vincent
Technique is of less interest than character and story. -- William Friedkin
The Alexander Technique has played an important and beneficial part in my life. -- John Houseman
Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it. -- Sanford Meisner
Technique holds a reader from sentence to sentence, but only content will stay in his mind. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. -- Roald Dahl
My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus. -- Lenny Henry
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder. -- Raymond Chandler
The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. -- Robertson Davies
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization. -- Jacques Ellul
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary. -- Robert Bateman
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression. -- La Meri
What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound. -- Dewey Redman
Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it. -- Jacques Ellul
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone. -- Tony Buzan
I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it. -- Jimmy Page
Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love. -- Wynton Marsalis
Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important -- Andre Kertesz
One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? She wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment? -- Sarah Mayberry
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. -- Oscar Wilde
Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories. -- Albert Renger-Patzsch
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson Pollock
Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done. -- Immortal Technique
To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. -- Andrew Wyeth
You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart. -- Mstislav Rostropovich
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
I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that. -- Katie Ledecky
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle. -- Arthur Rubinstein
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. -- Lee Iacocca
Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. -- Man Ray
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. -- Lewis H. Lapham
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The real preparation for races is done in the off-season. I put in the hard work during the summer and fall, and I'm always working on technique so that when the actual races come around I'm ready to go. -- Shani Davis
I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again. -- Ali MacGraw
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. -- Vera Wang
Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind. -- Andrew Weil
I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels. -- Megan Fox
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace. -- David Lynch
You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role. -- Susan Egan
You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. -- Jacques Pepin
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
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. -- Jacques Pepin
I like a lot of things about yoga - its an intro to good music; with each good teacher you study with, you learn a lot about them personally; it's not just about specific technique or poses. I also like Shavasana - not too many exercise routines let you nap at the end of them. You don't see nap pods in CrossFit gyms. -- Charles Michael Davis
Sincerity is technique. -- W. H. Auden
Find your own technique. -- John French Sloan
Spirit first, technique second. -- Gichin Funakoshi
I have no guitar technique. -- Warren Zevon
Beyond any technique, relationships are what heal. -- Lewis Mehl-Madrona
Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation. -- Kimon Nicolaides
Talent is inborn, but technique is learned. -- Stephen Fry
A technique is a trick that works. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
Animation is a technique, not a genre. -- Gore Verbinski
The bagger is the technique of lazy. -- Daniele Bagnoli
The best technique is none at all. -- Henry Miller
Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible -- Agnes de Mille
Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy. -- Noam Chomsky
In love as in art, good technique helps. -- Mason Cooley
It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri. -- Alastair Reynolds
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards? -- Edvard Munch
Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence. -- Swami Nithyananda
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. -- Bruce Lee
Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from yourself. -- Masaaki Hatsumi
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion. -- Agnes de Mille
Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique. -- Didier Drogba
I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions. -- Jimmy Page
The more technique there is, the less there is -- Pablo Picasso
I don't have technique because I never learnt any. -- Emma Thompson
If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create. -- Paco de Lucia
One day the clean technique will come to my head -- Alexei Yagudin
I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like. -- Fay Godwin
Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one. -- Gichin Funakoshi
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values. -- Allen Tate
Remember... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique. -- Bruce Lee
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. -- Adam Baldwin
To create, we need both technique and freedom of technique -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Those who rush are the same ones who lack technique. -- Ryron Gracie
Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique. -- Lawrence Durrell
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural. -- Anna Pavlova
Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing. -- Isadora Duncan
From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. -- Paul Mooney
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. -- Peter Straub
David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism. -- Agrippina Vaganova
The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us. -- Harry Callahan
Any good photograph is a successful synthesis of technique and art. -- Andreas Feininger
Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use! -- Noam Chomsky
If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique. -- Caio Terra

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