Technique Quotes - Page 22

• Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Cameras, Different

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• The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.

  Fritz Reiner

  Effort, Musical, Vitality

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• Technique is nothing more than failed style.

  John Waters

  Style

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

  Joe Louis

  Giving, Fighter, Tricks

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• She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.

  John Huston

  Unique, Down And, Found

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• I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

  Christopher Lee

  Thinking, Imagination, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember John walking on and starting to play, and my mouth sort of dropped open in disbelief at the power of the playing coming across the stage - and the technique! I've never, ever seen another drummer play quite the way he did.

  Cozy Powell

  Play, Mouths, Way

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• I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique and freshness in his playing.

  Gene Bertoncini

  Creativity, Opportunity, Numbers

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• It’s fascinating how the fundamentals of business-to-business marketing are the same today as they were 50 years ago. It’s still about relationships although today we have new tools and techniques at our disposal.

  David Meerman Scott

  Years, Marketing, Tools

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• In my world, the first thing I reach for is the sound. Technique is Ok, but if you got the technique and I got a good sound, I'll beat you every time. You can play a thousand notes and I can play one note and wipe you out. What I reach for is ... a sound.

  Dewey Redman

  Play, Sound, Wipe

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• A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front punch and a reverse punch are all essentially the same. Looking over thirty-odd kata, he should be able to see that they are essentially variations on just a handful.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Variation, Levels, Able

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.44, Kodansha International

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• When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Practice, Wholeheartedly

  Gichin Funakoshi (1994). “Karate-dō Nyūmon: The Master Introductory Text”, p.44, Kodansha International

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• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Blow, Times Like These, Self

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• Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Hands, Fists, Weapons

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• Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Animal, Mind, Overcoming

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• In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Kicking, Hitting, Joints

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• I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

  Roy DeCarava

  Thinking, Doe, Determine

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• Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back
  on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it cannot
  be used. When real battle comes, you must remember that
  some things will not be applicable. Don't think that any one
  technique is quintessential.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• You can only understand if you've had the technique done to
  you. It's like food. You can't describe the taste, but if you've
  tasted it, you know what it is. You have to personally
  experience it to understand.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Done, Taste, Knows

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• Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use
  this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until
  now.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Ideas, Use, Fixed

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• Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end.
  There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got
  them, you're dead because you didn't.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Thinking, Perfect, Ends

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  Karl Malone

  Space, Guy, Forget

  "A chip off the ol' block - sort of" by Mitch Sherman, www.espn.com. April 10, 2011.

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• In short, [Coltrane's] tone is beautiful because it is functional. In other words, it is always involved in saying something. You can't separate the means that a man uses to say something from what he ultimately says. Technique is not separated from its content in a great artist.

  Cecil Taylor

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

  "John Coltrane". Book by Bill Cole, 1976.

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• There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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