Technicians Quotes

I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

Jodie Foster

Play, Roles, Lines

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The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Richard B. Livingston

Jobs, Differences, Purpose

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If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

Robert Rodriguez

Creativity, People, Creative

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The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician

Poul Henningsen

Artist, Never Forget, Should

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A good technician gets it right maybe 60% of the time. And a great technician, maybe 61% of the time.

Gary B Smith

Business, Finance

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A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Richard B. Livingston

Jobs, Teaching, Learning

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Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.

Shiv Khera

Technology, Persons

FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Dec 04, 2014

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The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else.

Clifford Stoll

Engineering, Want, Firsts

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I believe that there is no such thing as a subordinate. If the air-conditioning ceases to work in our building, then the repair technician becomes more important than the chairman of the board. We're all people working together toward a common objective.

Mary Kay Ash

Work, Believe, Air

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It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.

Viktor E. Frankl

Firsts, Machines, Patient

Viktor E. Frankl (2000). “Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning”, Basic Books

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Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

Jacques Ellul

Goal, Ends, Humanist

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There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.

Georges Pompidou

Gambling, Three, Calling

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I also know that I am not a great technician.

John Fahey

Knows

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Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to produce mere scholars, technicians and job hunters, but integrated men and women who are free of fear; for only between such human beings can there be enduring peace.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jobs, Men, Understanding

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I realized I was not a great musical technician, if I was going to make anything interesting it would have to come from the creative side of me and not the craft side of me.

Jeffrey Lewis

Interesting, Creative, Musical

Source: therumpus.net

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I always laugh at people who say "I've never met a rich technician" I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician

Martin S. Schwartz

Years, People, Laughing

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There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Gordon Willis

Photography, Imagination, Vision

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The Thoroughbred exists because its selection has depended, not on experts, technicians, or zoologists, but on a piece of wood: the winning post of the Epsom Derby. If you base your criteria on anything else, you will get something else, not the Thoroughbred.

Federico Tesio

Horse, Winning, Race

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I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

Gary Wright

Stage Performance, Stage, Performances

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The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Robert Anton Wilson

Artist, Dope, California

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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

Vic Morrow

Jobs, War, Flower

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I haven't met a rich technician

Jim Rogers

Rich, Mets, Havens

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Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

Victor Davis Hanson

California, Southern, Actors

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Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... Its power of exactly reproducing external reality, a power inherent in its technique, lends it a documentary character and makes it appear as the most faithful and impartial process for the reproduction of social life.

Gisele Freund

Photography, Character, Mean

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The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

Michel de Certeau

Taken, Men, Order

Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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