Technique Quotes - Page 29

• Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather impress the chicks with my technique than with my brute strength. Then, every now and then, just to show I can do that, too, I might flirt a little by hitting one out.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Strength, Baseball, Sexy

  "Suzuki on a First-Name Basis With Records" by Brad Lefton, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2009.

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• "Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them."

  John Ortberg

  Church, Veins, Want

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• It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.

  Elvis Presley

  Sports, Art, Yoga

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• Spirit first, technique second.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Firsts, Spirit

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• Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

  Helio Gracie

  Art, Stronger, Opponents

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• Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Remember You, Remembers You

  "Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way".

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• When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

  Caio Terra

  Art, Martial Arts

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• Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Our World, Space

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

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• It is sometimes frightening to observe the success which comes even to the outlaw with a polished technique, and we find ourselves doubting the validity of the virtues we have been taught. But I believe we must reckon with character in the end, for it is as potent a force in world conflict as it is in our own domestic affairs. It strikes the last blow in any battle.

  Philip D. Reed

  Success, Believe, Character

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• This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Age, Manipulation

  "Manipulating Public Opinion". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 33 (pp. 958-971), May 1928.

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• I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques

  Steve Albini

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.

  Whitfield Diffie

  People, Choices, Cryptography

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• I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

  Alexandr Dolgopolov

  Classic, Changed

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• Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

  Alfred Aho

  Learning, Creating, Computer

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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• When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general, the later chapters contain more reliable information than the earlier ones do. The author feels that this technique of deliberate lying will actually make it easier for you to learn the ideas. Once you understand a simple but false rule, it will not be hard to supplement that rule with its exceptions.

  Donald Knuth

  Lying, Learning, Simple

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• Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

  Harold Morowitz

  Learning, Character, Maps

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• In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.

  Gerald Jay Sussman

  Beautiful, Art, Writing

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• The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Design, Tragedy

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• Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls [are] a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind.

  Joost Meerloo

  Successful, Cells, Brain

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• The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
  sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

  Walter Russell

  Love, Spring, Light

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• It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

  Lennart Nilsson

  Mean, People, Body

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• Sometimes during the two-year curriculum, every MBA student ought to hear it clearly stated that numbers, techniques, and analysis are all side matters. What is central to business is the joy of creating.

  Peter Robinson

  Business, Creating, Numbers

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• Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

  Peter Senge

  Learning, Knowledge, Practice

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• There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Spring, War

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