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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• Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Self, Mind, Principles

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Important

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Age, Alive

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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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• 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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• 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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• Find your own technique.

  John French Sloan

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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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• Technical achievement without vision is only craft.

  Carole Katchen

  Achievement, Vision, Crafts

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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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• Animation is a technique, not a genre.

  Gore Verbinski

  Genre, Animation

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• I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

  Robin Trower

  Thinking, Fundamentals

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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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• 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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• As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

  Immortal Technique

  Real, America, Issues

  Song: The Poverty Of Philosophy, 2001

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• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  William Faulkner

  Mistake, Believe, Writing

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Individual, Servant, Unconscious

  "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul, translated by John Wilkinson, 1964.

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