Technique Quotes - Page 19

• This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.

  Wickliffe Rose

  Science, Understanding, Important

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• The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

  James Black

  Science, Drug, Research

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• Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Communication, Art Is

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• My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Wrestling, Almost Perfect, Perfection

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• If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Learning, Health, Science

  Richard Isadore Evans, Konrad Lorenz (1975). “Konrad Lorenz: The Man and His Ideas”, Harcourt

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• If I had stood at the free-throw line and thought about 10 million people watching me on the other side of the camera lens, I couldn't have made anything. So I mentally tried to put myself in a familiar place. I thought about all those times I shot free throws in practice and went through the same motion, the same technique that I had used thousands of times. You forget about the outcome. You know you are doing the right things. So you relax and perform.

  Michael Jordan

  Wrestling, Practice, People

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Planning, Process, Strategic

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• What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Use, World

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• Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Rooms, Spontaneous

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• The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.

  Jacques Ellul

  Technology, Order, Civilization

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• Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the family. It involves a psychological adaptation of family life to military or industrial methods, supervision of family life, and training family life for military or industrial service. Technique can leave nothing untouched in a civilization. Everything is its concern. Technique, which is destroying all other civilizations, is more than a simple mechanism: it's a whole civilization in itself.

  Jacques Ellul

  Military, Army, Technology

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• Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Mean, Italian, Thinking

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• Sincerity is technique.

  W. H. Auden

  Crafts, Sincerity

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• We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Crafts, Efficiency, Form

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• Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

  Bruce Lee

  Success, Fighting, Style

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Warrior, Challenges

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.157, Shambhala Publications

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• Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teaching, Warrior, Progress

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.170, Shambhala Publications

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• The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children.

  Connie Morella

  Children, Memorable, Emotional

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• I am no longer an advocate of elaborate techniques of security analysis in order to find superior value opportunities.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Order, Analysis

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• I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Character, Thinking

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• I'm a strong believer in telling stories through a limited but very tight third person point of view. I have used other techniques during my career, like the first person or the omniscient view point, but I actually hate the omniscient viewpoint. None of us have an omniscient viewpoint; we are alone in the universe. We hear what we can hear... we are very limited. If a plane crashes behind you I would see it but you wouldn't. That's the way we perceive the world and I want to put my readers in the head of my characters.

  George R. R. Martin

  Strong, Hate, Writing

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• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Ignorance, People

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

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• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Heart, People

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.611, Simon and Schuster

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• Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds these things together in his basic presentation. He knows what he is doing. And how to do it. And then to his he adds his message.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Writing, Artist, Together

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• I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story. Technique can't operate at all, of course, except on believable material.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Talking, Stories

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.171, Macmillan

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